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A key measure of inflationspiked in June, climbing at thefastest pace in 13 years as pricesfor used cars, hotel stays andrestaurant meals surged while theeconomy reopens.
The Consumer Price Indexjumped by 5.4 percent in the yearthrough June, the Labor Depart-ment said on Tuesday, the largestyear-over-year gain since 2008but one that is expected to fade asthe economy moves past a volatilereopening period. The Biden ad-ministration quickly pointed outthat much of the move was tied totemporary supply issues: Pricesfor previously owned cars andtrucks rocketed higher and ac-counted for more than a third ofthe increase.
Yet the White House and Fed-eral Reserve are fixated on infla-tion data because it has risen fast-
er than many had expected — andthe pop might last longer thanthey had hoped. The administra-tion maintains that price gainswill be temporary. But inside theWhite House, aides have in recentweeks concluded that strong in-creases could linger for a year ormore, according to two adminis-tration officials.
Quick price gains can squeezeconsumers if wages fail to keepup. Out-of-control inflation couldalso prod the Fed to pull back itsemergency support for the econ-
INFLATION’S SURGEDRAWS QUESTIONSFOR WHITE HOUSE
BIGGEST RISE IN 13 YEARS
U.S. Officials Try to CalmFears, Saying Prices
Will Ease Soon
By JEANNA SMIALEKand JIM TANKERSLEY
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RECESSIONS
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Source: Bureau of Labor StatisticsTHE NEW YORK TIMES
Percent Change in Consumer Price Index From a Year Prior
WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden said on Tuesday that thefight against restrictive votinglaws was the “most significanttest of our democracy since theCivil War” and called Donald J.Trump’s efforts to overturn the2020 election “a big lie.”
In an impassioned speech inPhiladelphia, Mr. Biden tried toreinvigorate the stalled Demo-cratic effort to pass federal votingrights legislation and called on Re-publicans “in Congress and statesand cities and counties to standup, for God’s sake.”
“Help prevent this concerted ef-fort to undermine our election andthe sacred right to vote,” the presi-dent said in remarks at the Na-tional Constitution Center. “Haveyou no shame?”
But his words collided with re-ality: Even as Republican-led billsmeant to restrict voting accessmake their way through state-houses across the country, twobills aiming to expand votingrights nationwide are languishingin Congress. And Mr. Biden hasbucked increasing pressure fromDemocrats to support pushing thelegislation through the Senate byeliminating the filibuster, no mat-ter the political cost. In fact, thepresident seemed to acknowledgethat the legislation had little hopeof passing as he shifted his focusto the midterm elections.
“We’re going to face anothertest in 2022,” Mr. Biden said. “Anew wave of unprecedented votersuppression, and raw and sus-tained election subversion. Wehave to prepare now.”
He said he would start an effort“to educate voters about thechanging laws, register them tovote and then get the vote out.”
The partisan fight over votingrights played out even as the pres-ident spoke, with a group of TexasDemocrats fleeing their state todeny Republicans a quorum topass new voting restrictions.
In his speech, Mr. Biden charac-terized the conspiracy theoriesabout the 2020 election — hatchedand spread by his predecessor,Mr. Trump — as a “darker andmore sinister” underbelly ofAmerican politics. He did notmention Mr. Trump by name butwarned that “bullies and mer-chants of fear” had posed an exist-ential threat to democracy.
“No other election has everbeen held under such scrutiny,such high standards,” Mr. Bidensaid. “The big lie is just that: a biglie.”
Biden PortraysA Right to VoteAs Under Siege
‘Have You No Shame?’He Asks the G.O.P.
By KATIE ROGERS
A cascade of victories for Blackcandidates in the New York CityDemocratic primaries — high-lighted by Eric Adams’s win in themayoral race — is redefining theflow of political power in the na-tion’s largest city.
For just the second time in itshistory, New York City is on trackto have a Black mayor. For thefirst time ever, the Manhattan dis-trict attorney is set to be a Blackman, after Alvin Bragg won theDemocratic nomination. Thecity’s public advocate, who isBlack, cruised to victory in lastmonth’s primary. As many asthree of the five city borough pres-idents may be people of color, andthe City Council is poised to be no-tably diverse.
“This is a mission-driven move-ment,” Mr. Adams said in Harlemlast weekend, at the Rev. Al Sharp-ton’s National Action Network
headquarters. “If you don’t sitback and rejoice in this moment,shame on you. Shame on you. Oneof your own is going to move to be-come the mayor of the most im-portant city in the most importantcountry on the globe.”
If Mr. Adams and Mr. Bragg wintheir general elections as ex-pected, they will become amongthe most influential elected Blackofficials in the state, joining thestate attorney general, LetitiaJames; the State Senate majorityleader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins;and Assembly Speaker Carl E.Heastie.
Black Democrats also claimedtwo new congressional wins lastyear in New York City: Represent-atives Ritchie Torres, who identi-fies as Afro-Latino, in the SouthBronx; and Jamaal Bowman, who
Black Voters Are TransformingNew York With Black Victories
By KATIE GLUECK and JEFFERY C. MAYS
LEDOUX, N.M. — Nestled inthe Sangre de Cristo Mountains,the remote village of Ledoux hasfor more than a century relied on anetwork of irrigation ditches towater its crops. The outpost’s ace-quias, as New Mexico’s fabled ca-nals are known, are replenishedannually by snowmelt and rains.But with the Southwest locked in
an unrelenting drought, they havebegun to run dry.
“I never thought I’d witnesssuch a crash in our watersources,” said Harold Trujillo, 71, afarmer in Ledoux who has seenhis production of hay collapse toabout 300 bales a year from 6,000.“I look at the mountains around usand ask: Where’s the snow?Where are the rains?”
Acequias — pronounced ah-
SEH-kee-ahs — borrow theirname from the Arabic term forwater conduit, al-saqiya. They arecelebrated in song, books andverse, and they have endured inthe state for centuries. Spanish
colonists in New Mexico begandigging the canals in the 1600s,building on water harvestingtechniques honed by the PuebloIndians.
Even then, the acequia re-flected the blending of culturaltraditions. Muslims introducedacequias in Spain after invadingthe Iberian Peninsula in theeighth century, using gravity to
Humble but Vital, New Mexico’s Fabled Canals Are Running DryBy SIMON ROMERO Small Farms in Distress
as Drought Persists
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In Dallas, the school district hasbig plans for its share of federalstimulus money, including hiringabout 1,300 tutors. New hires,though, are being handed a sheetof paper that says their positionsmay last for only two or threeyears.
Bristol Virginia Public Schoolswants to use the federal money forone of its most pressing needs, re-placing aging school buildings.But since that is most likely not al-lowed, it will use some of themoney to fund a summer field tripto Florida.
Legislators in Wisconsin havesaid the federal money for schoolsmeans that the state can limit edu-cation spending, leaving districtsto figure out whether the federalfunds can make up for the stateshortfall.
Educators across the countryare eagerly making plans to spendtheir share of the roughly $129 bil-lion allocated to aid schools underthe Biden administration’s stimu-lus legislation, signed in March.The money is intended to helpschools reopen during the pan-demic, and according to the act, atleast 20 percent must be spent onhelping students recover academ-ically from the effects of schoolclosures and remote learning.
Districts say the money will al-low them to hire tutors, socialworkers and mental health coun-selors; enlarge summer enrich-ment programs; and reduce classsizes. But even as they welcomethe help, some superintendentsare finding that the funds comewith complications and unintend-ed consequences, and in somecases, cannot be spent on all oftheir top priorities.
Keith Perrigan, the superin-
Schools LearnRelief StimulusHas Its Hitches
By MADELEINE NGOand KATE TAYLOR
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —Teachers and religious leaders,lawyers and farmers, they are vet-erans of crisis who thought theyhad seen it all in recent years,looking on in outrage as the de-mocracy they were fighting forwas whittled away, gutted underthe watch of President JovenelMoïse.
Then the gunmen struck, and acountry that had been adrift nowfelt rudderless.
Mr. Moïse is dead, assassinatedin his own bedroom, and the fewleaders left in the country havebeen so busy jostling to take hisplace that they have not even set-tled on a plan for burying him. Ittook a week just to announce thatthey had formed a committee to
organize the ceremony.“All of this fighting,” lamented
Monique Clesca, a former UnitedNations official at a gathering ofHaitian civic leaders Tuesday inthe back of a restaurant in theleafy suburb of Pétionville, a 10-minute drive from where the pres-ident was killed.
For months, as Haiti fell deeperinto crisis over Mr. Moïse’s rule,with protests upending the nationand Parliament reduced to a shellin the absence of elections, Ms.Clesca’s group had been meeting
regularly, desperate to come upwith a plan to get the countryfunctioning again. Health care, afunctioning judiciary, schools,food: Their goals were at once ba-sic and ambitious.
Now, the crisis is even worse.All the focus seems to be on who
will emerge as Haiti’s next leader,she said. But the group wants thecountry to think bigger — to re-imagine itself, and build a plan toget to a different future.
As Haitians did in 2010, when anearthquake killed more than220,000 people and leveled muchof the capital, many hope this cri-
Haitians Seek Change Beyond a New PresidentBy CATHERINE PORTER After National Trauma,
Trying to Reimaginea Different Future
An image of President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated last week in his home, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.FEDERICO RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Prepare some condiments, dressings,toppings and seasonings to brightenany dish. Above, nuoc cham. PAGE D9
FOOD D1-10
20 Simple SaucesMarching season has begun as divi-sions widen over changes that Brexithas wrought in the region. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Tension in Northern Ireland
Netflix’s “The Crown” and the Disney+Star Wars drama “The Mandalorian”received the most nominations. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
Inside Track for the EmmysA longtime real estate investor andformer Goldman Sachs executive de-cided to take an electric truck companypublic. Chaos ensued. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-6
Behind the Lordstown DebacleRepublicans trying to line up enoughvotes to beat a filibuster are dealing withan all-too-familiar hangup: How arethey planning to pay for it all? PAGE A15
NATIONAL A12-19
Infrastructure Deal Hits Snag
A Manhattan branch of a Tokyo yakitorirestaurant shows the worth of neck skinand cartilage. PAGE D7
All Parts of the Chicken
The company must make a deal withthe orchestra musicians’ union toreopen for the fall season. PAGE C1
Bargaining at the Met Opera
REvil, blamed for some of the mostaudacious attacks on the United States,suddenly cannot be found. PAGE A6
Russian Hackers Go Offline
Dr. Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee’s topimmunization official, said she lost herjob for circulating a memo about youngpeople’s eligibility for shots. PAGE A18
Firing Over Vaccines for Teens
A judge temporarily blocked New YorkCity from moving homeless people outof hotels and into shelters, a key cityeffort to revitalize Midtown. PAGE A19
Reprieve for Hotel Dwellers
Lawmakers criticized the wooing ofPentagon officials before the bidding on a $10 billion contract. PAGE B1
Amazon Courtship Questioned
A high school football player in Texas isseeking a new start after he becameinfamous by leveling a referee. PAGE B7
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-10
Trying to End a Viral MomentJamelle Bouie PAGE A22
OPINION A22-23
COLOMBIANS’ ROLE Veteranswere recruited for what was calleda “noble” mission in Haiti. PAGE A9
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