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Say they're having to raise their prices when the bills come in, what do you say? >> i mean, i'm almost floored. >> reporter: at their dry cleaning businesses in maryland, ishmail and roshell wilson feel like they're the one being taken to the cleaners plastic bags, repeat paper, all costing way more. >> this time last year we paid $24.50 for a box of hangers. >> reporter: now >> now we pay $52.95. >> reporter: more than double >> more than double. >> and it is cutting into everything we need to grow and to sustain, quite frankly. >> reporter: on top of it they had already been struggling in t...

Americans are paying three and a half or 4.50 for gas. going to the grocery store this week are and can't find eggs or milk or grand beef or chicken. that's what the american people expect to us do address their genuine concerns and their day-to-day needs. not to address what the democrats are making up about states that have acted to protect the integrity of their elections. >> rachel: you are bumping into democrat senators every day on capitol hill. do you sense panic among your colleagues? >> i do sense a lot of fear among the democrats, especially those who are going to have to face the vo...

We're seeing this in record levels of quits as well as record levels of hires. >> reporter: workers are making a stand at a time when stores are struggling to stock shelves and a strike could grow in the coming days. >> they're essential workers, but they're being treated as sacrificial and disposable workers. >> reporter: a new study commissioned by the union indicates more than three-quarters of kroger workers are food insecure. kroger calls that report misleading and released its own research showing that kroger pays more than its peers and and it pushes back against the strike. >> nobody w...

To go. here we are, inflation at 40-year highs. what do you make of it that they're still trying to rebrand and repackage more spending? >> the problem, charles, is that the inflation looks like it's going to get worse in the months ahead because of rising food prices and the price of oil went to above $90 a barrel. that's the equivalent of $4.50 at the gas pump. the worst is not over here. i think there's a direct connection, charles, between all of this massive debt spending that we've done in the last 18 months in this build up of inflation, which is why almost no one -- i don't know a sing...

I've had a chance last half-hour to go through the report and not much to complain about. it is very positive and i agree with austin, really good news we saw increase in labor force participation getting workers back into the work force, still about 4 million employment behind where we were before covid, but this was a solid report. that is good news. the bad news is that if you look at what is happening right now with the inflation, it is not, in my opinion, no signs it is receding. it looks like it is getting worse. oil hit $90 per barrel, equivalent of about paying $4 to $4.50 a gallon. i ...