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These results suggest that people’s inability to save what they want, more so than an inability to spend what they want, is impeding Americans’ financial happiness right now.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025

Ditto the FDA dysfunction, which is impeding the launch of life-saving drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

This effect, combined with the slowdown in residential transactions, is impeding property tax growth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025

We can swiftly dispense, then, with Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s “An Irish Goodbye,” in which two brothers reunite in rural Ireland to bury the mother whose bucket list is impeding their relocation.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

But health officials on the border say they are frustrated that a bureaucratic hurdle is impeding an easy way to further expand vaccine availability in Mexico.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021