How much is the war hitting American's bottom line?

NPR | By Karen Zamora,

Mary Louise Kelly, Christopher Intagliata

Published May 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM CDT

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, about living in a war economy.

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