U.S. consumers managed to push through a choppy first half of the year—from higher gasoline prices to uneven employment conditions—and still kept spending.
Fuel costs and the labor market remain households’ biggest worries, surveys show, yet shoppers continued to power the broader economy well beyond the gas station.
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