The majority of women in the United States are single, and they’re becoming a big force in our economy. Single women now make up a significant share of the job market, homeowners and college graduates. But we’ll get into why that doesn’t necessarily amount to a boon for women’s wealth and wages. Also, business owners are coming clean about price-raising strategies, dubbed excuseflation. Plus, how mending your clothes became a hot fashion trend.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Crestfallen, veterans demand accountability for Afghan exit’s failures” from The Washington Post

• “Party of One: How Single Women Stack Up in the U.S. Economy” from Wells Fargo  

• “Washington Suffers as Federal Employees Work From Home” from Bloomberg 

• “Single women take an outsize role in the workforce — and the economy” from The Washington Post 

• “How ‘Excuseflation’ Is Keeping Prices — and Corporate Profits — High” from Bloomberg

• “Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia — His Own Town” from The Wall Street Journal 

• “Does Anyone Mend Clothes Anymore?” from Southern Living

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