From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Thursday, May 7th.

Here's what we're covering.

Paint me a picture of how you manage fuel calls since the war and the spike in prices.

I mean, I was paying well below

$3. And then let me see, within a week, a week, it jumped up a damn near a dollar.

Across the U.S., gas prices keep ticking up, but the weight of that burden is not hitting

everyone equally. I mean, yeah, it's rough. that burden is not hitting everyone equally.

I mean, yeah, it's rough. I mean, gas was the one thing that wasn't that expensive.

According to an analysis released by the New York Fed, lower-income Americans are feeling the

worst of it. My colleague Talman Joseph Smith talked with a woman in her mid-40s who drives for Uber and Lyft in Charleston, South Carolina.

She said the jump in gas prices has eroded her take-home pay.

It's like, why am I even coming out of the house?

In general, the analysis found, lower-income households are spending a lot more on gas than usual,

even as they're cutting back on how much they're buying.

They may be driving less, carpooling, taking public transit if they can.

Higher-income households, however, are buying the same amount of gas as before, even with the surge in prices.

It's a sign their behavior has largely been unaffected. The data shows the spike

in fuel costs is essentially inflaming the economic divide in the U.S. and perpetuating the

K-shaped state of the economy, where those on top keep thriving, while those at the bottom slide

in comparison. Meanwhile, we're in a, I call it a skirmish, because that's what it is, it's a skirmish.

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