Plus, Apple says it will roll out changes to privacy notifications for apps tracking user behavior. And, how President Biden's executive order intended to boost the amount of American-made goods the federal government buys might affect small businesses.
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U.S. GDP got a slight bump at the end of 2020, but it was the worst reading for the year since the end of WWII
Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, said we saw only a 4% increase in the last quarter of 2020. "And the slowdown we saw at the end of the year was driven by a slowdown in consumer spending," Swonk said. "The loss at grocery stores, we know, was showing up in those long food lines as people went hungry and their savings from the CARES Act ran out." Despite growth in the last two quarters for which we have data, Swonk said we're still recession territory with the employment picture as bad or worse than the heights of the Great Recession.
Apple set to change privacy notifications protocol for apps tracking users in "early spring"
Marketplace's Nova Safo has more.
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David Brancaccio
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Victoria Craig
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Jonathan Frewin
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Daniel Shin
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Jay Siebold
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Brian Allison
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Meredith Garretson
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