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2718 - Economy Slowing; RIP Dolly Parton; How Police Seized Political Power w/ Stuart Schrader
Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Data shows that core inflation rose 3.7% in July, which is higher than anticipated, and spending is down as well. Not good for the Republicans heading into the midterm elections CBS News reports on the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity's analysis of "functional unemployment", a metric created by LISEP that includes the unemployed, people earning poverty-level wages, and those involuntarily working part-time to create what they call a true unemployment rate. The LISEP determines that the true unemployment rate is at 24.9%…
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