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2. Al Franken had Austan Goolsbee on this morning and he had an

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Feb 20, 2022, 01:15 PM

Feb 2022

interesting view on the labor market vis a vis BBB and childcare plus pre K would potentially free up millions of women to get back into the market. Of course you would always need (and should encourage) immigrantion but it would alleviate pressures in so many areas. As Goolsbee said, it's a no brainer.

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Immigrants could help the US labor shortage -- if the government would let them [View all] Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 OP

Anyone examine Pantagruel Feb 2022 #1

Al Franken had Austan Goolsbee on this morning and he had an OnDoutside Feb 2022 #2

True. Remembering, though, that at all times over half the nation Hortensis Feb 2022 #3

I'm pretty conflicted about the whole thing bhikkhu Feb 2022 #4

A decent part of this article Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 #5