rates

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But higher mortgage rates and prices, along with a limited supply of homes for sale in some parts of the country, have kept sales crawling.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

It may not even slow rates of saving at all, since amid slowing economic growth and mounting pessimism, households have plenty of other reasons to batten down their financial hatches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Prof Knight's unit has compared how caesarean birth rates - both planned and emergency - have changed across 42 countries.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

There is no single reason why colon-cancer rates have been rising in people younger than 50, but it’s likely driven by increasingly unhealthy diets that lack fiber and over-index on ultraprocessed foods.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Between 1960 and 1990, for example, official crime rates in Finland, Germany, and the United States were close to identical.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander