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Officials altered their views on the economy, raising their outlook on inflation for 2026 to 3.6% on headline and 3.3% for core, which excludes food and energy. At the last update in March, committee members anticipated 2.7% rates for both measures. They also slightly lowered their projection for gross domestic product growth to 2.2%, down 0.2 percentage point from March, and cut the unemployment projection to 4.3%, down 0.1 percentage point.
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Voters in Washington state could approve an anti-transgender law, Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, which would require girl student-athletes statewide to confirm their "biological sex" with genital inspections just to play sports. Opponents of the initiative say it's invasive, could block poorer students from getting verified, and could meet pushback from medical professionals who refuse to comply.
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Trump probably thought Herbert Hoover was some kind of genius after hearing Archie Bunker sing wistfully about him in the All In The Family theme song.
These lyrics are contemporary Republican politics to a tee. We hear this stuff daily from Republicans here and in the media:
Those Were The Days
Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/allinthefamilylyrics.html
source: www.lyricsondemand.com
Why isn't the DoJ all over this case
#3 | Posted by LampLighter
Same reason DOJ isn't investigating the Epstein Files.
You are aware the kidnap victim's daughter spilled the beans on Trump and Epstein, right? You should know that.
Savannah Guthrie Trump interview on 'satanic pedophile ring' goes viral after mother reported missing; 'he knew'
NBC 's 'TODAY' show host Savannah Guthrie's old interview with President Donald Trump has gone viral even as her mother has been reported missing.
www.hindustantimes.com
"They can find $30-$50 a week in expenses they can do without."
That's not actually going to work, Eberly.
What you claim is the solution is actually the problem!
Terry Pratchett -- Boots Theory:
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.[4]"
en.wikipedia.org
Someone upthread said something about a man in the 1950's being able to support a family on one income... Has anyone looked at the size of those houses they lived in?
#96 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Poor people used to deserve homes, but now they don't, is what you are saying here.
That's what the homebuilders and the regulators have decided: No more building homes that poor people can afford.
This is exactly what's described in "The Innovator's Dilemma" by the way. As a business scales, it requires higher margins to sustain growth.
And we are in an era of record corporate profits.
And corporate profits are paid for with wages that don't keep up with production:
"The surge in corporate profits as a share of national income began in late 2020, mostly at the expense of a decline in net interest and miscellaneous payments on assets (interest paid less interest received and royalty payments) and proprietors' income (income earned by unincorporated businesses). In contrast, employee compensation as a share of national income marginally decreased. It averaged 61.8% of national income over the 2010-19 period and was 61.6% in the last quarter of 2024."
www.stlouisfed.org
"Employee compensation as a share of national income is typically referred to as the labor share, which represents the portion of national income allocated to wages and salaries. This share has been declining in many developed countries since the 1980s."
"He just won't ever vote to accomplish anything."
Is that really his fault though?
There isn't a Republican he can vote for in the primaries who supports school lunches, day care, food stamps, minimum wage, etc.
Those Republicans went extinct after W.
He's in the same position as his imaginary 25 year old kid, trying to live within his means.
Those things he says he supports, they are no longer within the means of the Republican Party.