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Doesnt explicitly say that its directed towards them. >> catherine, theres been a lot of pushback on this from a lot of folks. and even some democrats are pushing back. former treasury secretary, larry summers, has said that its going to make inflation worse. he says this isnt a good use of federal money. why do you say that? >> the inflation stuff i think directionally it could make inflation a little bit worse, its gonna have a minimal effect, to be fair. my concern is that its not a particula...

And the reality is that pell grants or something that are really present in the black community. and that is because were working with so many structural issues that upset us at a disadvantage from the beginning. less wealth to work with. we go into the workforce, we deal with a smaller wages and a paid at that particular for black women. so, its a way of signaling support and intention around trying to ease the burden for black voters, even though it doesnt explicitly say that its directed towa...

Deal with this inflation thing. when you have an 88. >> steve: let the federal reserve worry about it. >> rachel: 88% of the american people saying we are on the wrong track. the progressives are saying whoa, whoa, whoa on all this inflation stuff. if you take down inflation right away here is what they said we are going to have problems dealing with the issues that we want to deal with. we need the nations infrastructure and we want it to rely more on clean energy. we need this transformation. ...

Report. what is interesting in it, this is the 11th month in a row, martha, where weve had better than 400,000 jobs added to the economy. its a blistering pace. were now net down from the covid hikes. 1.5 million jobs. one million jobs away from recouping all the jobs that were lost during covid. thats the good news. the bad news is the inflation stuff. tucked in the report is some very promising developments on the wage front. americans wages have gone up about 5.6%. unfortunately inflation has...

Neil: on paper, the economy looks pretty good. more than 400,000 americans found jobs, but when they do find jobs and find themselves making more money, theyre eating it all away on, well, the stuff they want to eat because its a lot more expensive. and its already, already indicated to have slowed spending down. the latest fear up about two-tenths of a percent in february. so maybe all this inflation stuff is hitting home. to dan geltrude, following that. dan, you reminded me over the many mont...

Them share her frustrations on that, on to policy issues that shes talking about. but perhaps not enough of them share that. neil: this has been a crazy week for the markets. this is the fifth out of the last six weeks the dow was down. its been careening on inflation concerns. there are other issues, the uncertainty of how far and wide omicron goes, i get that, but the inflation stuff back to our own polls show that americans are worried about it as well. what do you think of all of that? >> we...

>> john: a lot of unanswered questions, jonathan hunt for us in los angeles. >> sandra: tired of rising gas prices and the higher cost of groceries? there may not be any relief at any time soon. twitter ceo jack dorsey is now tweeting this grim morning. hyperinflation is going to change everything. its happening. joining us as fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino, something about jack dorseys tweets, some of them are head-scratchers but he gets peoples attention, has millions of f...

With higher demand, companies are hiring. we saw nine million job plus openings in the month of april. before the white house and the fed and other policy makers, you can beat that theyll be closely watching the trends to see if theyre temperature or transitory these days. >> neil: i like that. susan li, thanks very much. maybe because the markets might believe what susan was saying, its transitory. could explain the run up. the s&p hit a record. now a lot of this is based on confidence that all...

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