Category: Thanksgiving

What Consumers Say About Rising Prices This Thanksgiving

On the verge of celebrating Thanksgiving with her family, Melissa Ngo wasn’t happy after her grocery shopping trip. The high price of gasoline has cut into her family’s budget for everything, she said. She’s now having to shop at three different grocery stores—Giant Eagle, Marc’s, and Aldi—to find the lowest prices. “It’s everything,” said Ngo,…


What Americans Say About Rising Prices This Thanksgiving

On the verge of celebrating Thanksgiving with her family, Melissa Ngo wasn’t happy after her grocery shopping trip. The high price of gasoline has cut into her family’s budget for everything, she said. She’s now having to shop at three different grocery stores—Giant Eagle, Marc’s, and Aldi—to find the lowest prices. “It’s everything,” said Ngo,…


Consumers Feeling the Pain of Inflation This Thanksgiving

On the verge of celebrating Thanksgiving with her family, Melissa Ngo wasn’t happy after her grocery shopping trip. The high price of gasoline has cut into her family’s budget for everything, she said. She’s now having to shop at three different grocery stores—Giant Eagle, Marc’s, and Aldi—to find the lowest prices. “It’s everything,” said Ngo,…


Airports Crowded as Americans Travel for Holiday

Millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, determined to reclaim Thanksgiving traditions that were put on pause last year by the pandemic. The number of air travelers this week is expected to approach or even exceed pre-pandemic levels. Auto club AAA predicts that 48.3 million people will travel at least…


Capitol Report (Nov. 24): Thanksgiving Is a Time to Reflect on Life’s Blessings

Thanksgiving is just one day away, and President Joe Biden and the first lady are ready for the holidays! With the holiday season and Thanksgiving upon us, we go beyond the turkey and the football games to remember what the holiday of Thanksgiving is truly about. We also get some advice on how to handle…


Gas Prices High Ahead of Busy Thanksgiving Holiday

Gasoline prices remain historically high, frustrating drivers at the pump as they head into the Thanksgiving Day holiday, with AAA predicting 48.3 million drivers heading to holiday destinations, with numbers approaching 2019 levels. While the national average price of regular gas has eased a little in recent weeks, it was up at $3.398 a gallon on…


Practicing Gratitude: Henry Ossawa Tanner’s ‘The Thankful Poor’

Thanksgiving is here, and I’ve been thinking deeply about what it means to be thankful. What does it mean to have gratitude, and for what should we be grateful? Sometimes, holidays like Thanksgiving can be stressful. For instance, some of us might have to host and cook for our families. Others might have no one…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Nov. 24)

Gas prices are up ahead of the holidays. President Joe Biden is trying to offer some relief at the pump. We have analysis on his release of oil reserves. U.S. airlines and airports prepare for a surge of travelers ahead of Thanksgiving. As vaccination rates have risen, many Americans are traveling for the holidays. Transportation…


Energy Boss Granholm Calls on Oil Companies to Increase Supply

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called on United States’ oil companies to increase production to try to help bring down the elevated prices Americans are paying at the pump. Granholm’s comments came during a Nov. 23 White House press briefing, hours after President Joe Biden ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation’s Strategic…


Give Thanks for America This Thanksgiving

Commentary This November represents the 400th anniversary of the first thanksgiving of the Pilgrims who, against all odds, survived their first winter in a strange new world an ocean away from everything familiar to them. It had not been an easy year, as nearly half of the Pilgrims died during their first winter in the…