(3 Jul 2024)
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Chicago – 3 July 2024
1. Various of travelers at O’Hare International Airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Keene, traveler:
"I’m doing well, you know, career is progressing. But the purchasing power side of it, the inflation side of it just feels like it’s not getting that much better."
3. Travelers at O’Hare
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Keene, traveler:
"I think maybe people are starting to just think less about the long term and start to think more short term, because it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of optimism about the future right now. So, to me, that explains mybe why people are traveling more."
5. Various of travelers
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Madison Tilner, traveler:
"I’m a student, I’m in law school, and so my finances are always like pretty tight, and I’m trying to be pretty cautious. And I know loan interest rates for student loans are going really high right now."
7. Travelers at O’Hare
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Madison Tilner, traveler:
"I’m cautious in general about spending, but because I am in school right now and I know I have my whole work life ahead of me, I am trying to travel more and use my free time while I can, and I think a lot of people feel that way in summer."
9. Various of travelers at O’Hare
STORYLINE:
Inflation be damned, Americans weren’t letting worries about the pocketbook keep them from traveling and enjoying fireworks as they celebrate their nation’s birth with parades, cookouts and fiery splashes of colors against the evening sky.
Travel records were projected to fall as people readied themselves for the Fourth of July holiday that began with people jamming airports and crowding highways to get to their destinations in the United States.
All signs pointed to big celebrations: The Transportation Security Administration reported that a record-breaking nearly 3 million people went through airports in a single day last week, and that figure is expected to be broken this week.
And AAA projected 60.6 million people are going to travel by car during the holiday period.
The holiday comes against a backdrop of disunity and discord, and an divisive upcoming presidential election.
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