{"id":375,"date":"2025-08-01T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:54:22","slug":"85-percent-of-parents-worry-about-tariffs-affecting-back-to-school-cost-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/85-percent-of-parents-worry-about-tariffs-affecting-back-to-school-cost-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"85 percent of parents worry about tariffs affecting back-to-school cost: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tariff concerns are affecting parents as they begin back-to-school shopping early to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5430309-trump-tariffs-economy-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the higher costs<\/a> they believe are coming for school supplies, according to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/money.usnews.com\/credit-cards\/articles\/2025-back-to-school-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey from U.S. News<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent of parents surveyed already began back-to-school shopping as 62 percent said they expect to pay more this year than last year, according to the survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-five percent of parents said they were concerned about rising prices due to tariffs when thinking about back-to-school shopping. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 57 percent of American respondents are cutting back on back-to-school shopping due to concerns of rising prices, with the top categories targeted for drawbacks including clothes and shoes, accessories and technology. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen percent of parents expect to pay more than $500 per child in back-to-school costs this year, almost double the amount that felt the same in 2024. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about how tariffs will affect prices come as President Trump aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/morning-report\/5431581-trump-unveils-sweeping-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">implement new tariffs<\/a> on Aug. 7, which has caused markets to fall around the world. While the president has discussed frameworks for deals with some countries, others such as Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5431181-trump-raises-tariffs-on-canada-to-35-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">face a 35 percent tariff<\/a>. The president delayed a similar tariff on Mexico. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border,\u201d Trump posted Thursday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114948452793702817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cWe have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariff concerns are affecting parents as they begin back-to-school shopping early to avoid the higher costs they believe are coming for school supplies, according to a Wednesday survey from U.S. News.\u00a0\u00a0 Sixty percent of parents surveyed already began back-to-school shopping as 62 percent said they expect to pay more this year than last year, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flashofthestars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}