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The eight counties that make up California’s San Joaquin Valley Air District form the nation’s most productive farming area. In 2022, it produced citrus, almonds, tomatoes, pistachios, walnuts, alfalfa, corn, winter wheat, rice, livestock, and other...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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I used to follow Mark Shields on ARCA Max. Nowadays my guy is Marc Munroe Dion. He’s a solid. He doesn’t restrict himself to pre-approved points of view in an effort to blend in with the choir. In this opinion piece he addresses Immigration, ladies and...
by AnotherOklahoman
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 10:25 AM PST
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Much has been written about senior citizens and retirees who have been duped into buying into the so called Medicare “advantage” plans (more appropriately called dis-advantage). However, there has been relatively scant publicity about the widespread...
by Corthammer
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 03:02 PM PST
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The nation’s employers added a solid 199,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell, fresh signs that the economy could achieve an elusive “soft landing,” in which inflation would return to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target without causing a...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 05:48 AM PST
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If you’ve seen the post by dmontaine, there’s a list of ways The economy sucks - for many of us. I won’t go into them all here — you can find the list at the link. There’s a lot there to be angry about — but there’s something to remember about much of...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 03:22 PM PST
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The economic news in last month’s PCE price index report, combined with this morning’s stunningly robust jobs report (gift link), is fantastic: “core” inflation continues to fall while the jobs market remains strong. This is super important — it defies...
by this is only a test
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 12:04 PM PDT
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The nation's employers added 187,000 jobs in August, evidence of a slowing but still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed. Last month's job growth marked an increase from July's revised gain of 157,000...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:42 AM PDT
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America’s employers pulled back on hiring but still delivered another month of solid gains in June, adding 209,000 jobs, a sign that the economy’s resilience is confounding the Federal Reserve’s drive to slow growth and inflation. The latest evidence...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 05:52 AM PDT
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In his first year as prime minister, Anthony Albanese has increased the number of Australians in the paid workforce by 3.44% to an all-time high of 14 million. That gives Albo the best record of any prime minister since 1978, when the current data...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 05:05 AM PDT
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This observation isn’t mine, it comes from Claudia Sam that former Fed economist turned pundit. The official unemployment rate is at 3.5% or something, and to tell you the truth that number has never impressed me with accuracy. Labor force...
by Somchai
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on Sun Apr 16, 2023 at 08:10 AM PDT
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Last week’s jobs report was good. Inflation continues to decline, which is great. The March CPI report comes out tomorrow — I expect it to be benign. (Disclaimer: do NOT trade real money based on my expectations — I certainly don’t). Yesterday’s Paul...
by this is only a test
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on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 08:09 AM PDT
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I wanted to gift a decent story in the NYT this morning called “Wages May Not Be Inflation’s Cause, but They’re the Focus of the Cure.” While this article isn’t perfect — I still hate it when writers and editors describe the last 12 months of data in...
by this is only a test
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on Fri Apr 07, 2023 at 07:29 AM PDT
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Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) has a desire to halt initiatives that relate to diversity in hiring because he believes that they are a form of discrimination. Gardner Pate, the chief of staff for Abbott, said in a letter to state agencies that...
by OK Dodo
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on Wed Feb 08, 2023 at 05:16 PM PST
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Apart from the hefty gain of 517,000 jobs added to the economy in January, there was another surprise buried deep in the report the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last Friday. → www.bls.gov/... Every year, when the Bureau releases the jobs numbers...
by Mark Lippman
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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by RubenBolling
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 04:50 AM PST
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I was earning nine dollars per hour as an employee with the Mental Health Center of Denver fifteen years ago, assiduously trying to cobble together a semblance of a professional career a few months after obtaining my release from the psychiatric wing...
by Eihenetu
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on Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 02:54 PM PST
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A new congressional report was released analyzing the structural inequalities present during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, the report shows that racism is alive and well in the workplace and in who is afforded economic grace at times of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 03:03 PM PST
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Elon Musk is a thin-skinned twit (see what I did there?). I think we have all pretty much learned that beyond a shadow of a doubt this last couple of weeks since he took over twitter. He has trashed the company's reputation with advertisers based on...
by angryea
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 08:22 AM PST
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The luxury of aging and still having a bit of a memory to work with, and the urge for economy in thinking and writing, can result in writings that resemble wisdom in the output, and are also fun with words :-) This isn’t really that. This is musings on...
by Basenji
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 05:48 AM PST
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Let’s be clear, as we walk into the precinct today. If we weigh inflation, economic resilience, the social security safety net, not to mention democracy and rule of law we should vote to keep the Senate, and our representatives, Democratic. After the...
by joan reports
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on Tue Nov 08, 2022 at 05:02 AM PST
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