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“Job gains remained solid and the unemployment rate was little changed in recent months. Household spending has continued to rise moderately while business fixed investment appears to have firmed somewhat,”. “Inflation has increased in recent quarters, moving close to the Committee's 2% longer-run objective; excluding energy and food prices, inflation was little changed and continued to run somewhat below 2%. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.” The FOMC said it expects that, with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace, labor market conditions will strengthen somewhat further, and inflation will stabilize around 2% over the medium term. Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced, it added. An analysis have said it found that the 25 basis-point increase will cost U.S. consumers ...

For a second year, the program has helped local firefighters put more carbon monoxide detectors in homes across the area. The credit union started handing out the carbon monoxide detectors on Wednesday. "It is my eventual goal to see that every household in Huber Heights has a working smoke detector and a working carbon monoxide detector," said Huber Heights Fire Division Chief Mark Ash-worth. Nationwide, an estimated 430 people die from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Carbon monoxide poising has been attributed to annual emergency room visits for about 50,000 people in the United States. The credit union will donate carbon monoxide detectors to fire departments in Dayton, Kettering, Trot-wood, Butler Twp., Huber Heights, Troy and Sugar-creek Twp. "It's a total of 681 detectors that we've been able to donate after this year and hope to continue to do it," said Shannon O'Neill...

Benefit concert series across 11 cities to drive donations in support of firefighters LYNCHBURG, Tenn., Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire and iHeartMedia announce the "Rise From The Fire" Concert Flyaway Sweepstakes. Consumers ages 21+ can now enter for a chance to win a trip for two to New York for a benefit concert featuring a top music act. The event will conclude an 11-city iHeartRadio concert series to benefit firefighters and communities affected by fire. The sweepstakes and concert series are part of an effort by Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire to raise funds in support of the Fire Family Foundation, an organization that offers immediate assistance to firefighters and their families, fire victims, fire departments and charities. The Foundation believes that by coming together as a "Fire Family," assistance can be provided by those impacted by fire. "We are truly honored to have the support of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire to expand our ef...