s cities with an affordable rents has more than doubled in the last year, according to moody analyticscities with unaffordable rents have increased from eight in 2021. 2 23 this year. sacramento is one of the city's on that list rents there have increased by almost 8% year over year. rents can be much higher here in the bay area, but according to the data the average rent and the u. s has climbed to $1722 that works out to about 31% of renters pretax pay and exceeds what many financial experts recommend for budgeting for housing. pilots working for delta say enough is enough doesn't hit the picket line outside of atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport. today they held signs expressing frustration for current working conditions as airlines deal with an employee shortage across the nation. they say they're being forced to work overtime to meet flight demands and have asked delta to improve retirement benefits and job protections. the protest comes as more than one million travelers are expected to fly through the airport for the busy fourth of july travel weekend. back here in the bay, oak

moody's analytics. he joins us from west chester, pennsylvania. welcome to the news hour. i'm how we to understand this. i mean, so the u. s. economy has contracts it over 2 straight quarters. isn't that the textbook definition of a recession? yes, it is the textbook definition for technical recession, but it really, that's just a rule of thumb that economists use to determine if we are in recession and it usually does work. it usually is correct, but it's not perfect. and at the moment, we have a number of other indicators that the official arbiters of recession use to determine recession that are, that are still quite favorable. so the job market, for example, is still growing. we're still adding about $250000.00 jobs per month to this u. s. economy. it be very strange if we were in a, in a recession and still adding to job growth. so an economic downturn then is unfair to call it that but, but not a recession, but once the longer term economic outlook, looking like for the u. s. now clearly the con you slowing that there is no dispute about that. and whether or not we are in recession now currently or of approaching rece