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Employers added 223,000 jobs in December, about in line with economists’ expectations but lower than the average in recent months. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, back to its low point from before the pandemic. @lydiadepillis https://t.co/DeTnc6RvlK

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"why are groceries so expensive" Kroger profits are at record highs. Its stock is up 36% in a year. Its CEO got a 45% raise to $22M and makes 909x the median worker. 75% of its workers are food insecure. 63% can't pay their bills. Many are on food stamps https://t.co/nTiM6V0BK1

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“…our economy is bigger and our families have more money in their pockets than they did before the pandemic. And America is the only major economy in the world that can say that.” Plus POTUS is releasing oil reserves to lower gas prices. #TYJoe 🍁🌾🦃 https://t.co/cLzLvBmpd6

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Transcript and video. In case you missed President Biden’s address on the economy yesterday!!!

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Have you no shame! President Biden asked the GOP yesterday in a speech from the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Watch it here. This is how a President leads! https://t.co/eAvjU6dXDa

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Watch here! President Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning for America.

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Kansas has now tested GOP tax orthodoxy twice. First it slashed taxes, promising an economic miracle; all it got was a huge deficit. Then it revoked the tax cuts, which the right says should have been a disaster; instead, the budget is back in surplus 1/ https://t.co/C0aLj6LavA

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One year after Trump imposed aluminum tariffs: American cos. pay 20% more for aluminum than global competitors No net job creation in the industry *USA still produces ~2/3 the aluminum as Norway, and 1/37 of China https://t.co/J0ZCiWwWRC

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Earlier this week marked the ninth year that the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged from $7.25 an hour. During that time the cost of groceries have gone up and rents have skyrocketed. We must make the minimum wage a living wage. https://t.co/4HIAyPUL3T

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thread re: how NYT has now basically locked out Congressional Dems from commenting on Trump news. Number of Dems quoted: 0. https://t.co/vmdhM2gcDc

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Employers added 223,000 jobs in December, about in line with economists’ expectations but lower than the average in recent months. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, back to its low point from before the pandemic. @lydiadepillis https://t.co/DeTnc6RvlK

The most important thing we can do now to transition from rapid recovery to stable, steady growth is to bring inflation down. That is why I have made tackling inflation my top economic priority. My plan has three parts — read more about them here: https://t.co/5IUu0qbCaa

"why are groceries so expensive" Kroger profits are at record highs. Its stock is up 36% in a year. Its CEO got a 45% raise to $22M and makes 909x the median worker. 75% of its workers are food insecure. 63% can't pay their bills. Many are on food stamps https://t.co/nTiM6V0BK1

States that cut off $300/week unemployment checks didn't get people back to work but did see a 20% decline in spending, costing them $2 billion. Sort of like the opposite of a stimulus https://t.co/NMRuTmHPNq

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Have you no shame! President Biden asked the GOP yesterday in a speech from the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Watch it here. This is how a President leads! https://t.co/eAvjU6dXDa

Watch here! President Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning for America.

Trump Cuts Scheduled Federal Pay Raise, Citing “Serious Economic Conditions” in the Country. So which is it? The best economy in the history of economies or a national economic emergency? Either way, somebody’s lying. https://t.co/LbK4HoA0kQ

Kansas has now tested GOP tax orthodoxy twice. First it slashed taxes, promising an economic miracle; all it got was a huge deficit. Then it revoked the tax cuts, which the right says should have been a disaster; instead, the budget is back in surplus 1/ https://t.co/C0aLj6LavA

One year after Trump imposed aluminum tariffs: American cos. pay 20% more for aluminum than global competitors No net job creation in the industry *USA still produces ~2/3 the aluminum as Norway, and 1/37 of China https://t.co/J0ZCiWwWRC

Earlier this week marked the ninth year that the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged from $7.25 an hour. During that time the cost of groceries have gone up and rents have skyrocketed. We must make the minimum wage a living wage. https://t.co/4HIAyPUL3T

International Women’s Day 2018: Beyond #MeToo, With Pride, Protests and Pressure

A Look at #InternationalWomensDay around the world today https://t.co/LAUcnNpXXY

What’s the matter @realDonaldTrump, don’t you have any rich buddies in the solar industry? Why kill this job-creating industry of the future? #Jobs #MAGA #MostCorruptPresidentEver https://t.co/O0SHUbZsJg

Labor market momentum flags as U.S. added only 98,000 jobs in March - Thank Trump! #TrumpRussia #Resist #saveACA https://t.co/u1gXORbxUa

President Obama Is Handing a Strong Economy to His Successor. Lucky Donald. https://t.co/M71XG46Aur

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