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That's why we want child care expenses to be capped at 7%. it's for those manufacturing workers that are out there doing everything right. you know, paid family leave. like if you really want to help these people, you have to have governmental policies that go directly to them, but ultimately you have to get wages up, you have to respect this kind of work and the people who are doing it. that's the underlying problem, i think. >> tim, i learned how to use a hammer in shop class and how to create a budget in home ec. i've used those much more than i have ever used trigonometry. i am glad you br...

Bit worse. one of the thing that's worth pulling out, we haven't spoken about it in the recent months, but we did a lot of the summer. vacancies, that huge labor shortages, quietly continuing to get a lot worse. for the first time, the number of vacancies in the economy up over 1,200,000. and that matters, too, because companies can't find workers, they have to put their wages up, and have to price their goods up. that will feed into the big inflationary problem that we're all seeing, and that mismatch between wages and inflation. so there's a lot of stuff going on that i think government will...

15,000 are european drivers who left the country in the last year. through the pandemic a lot of drivers wanted to go home to be closer to their families, and they really, since the effects of brexit, they haven't wanted to come back. they can earn just as much in places like germany or france, there's no real need to be in the uk. on top of that, during the pandemic, many new drivers couldn't take their hgv licence test. 30,000 tests were delayed last year. at this family—owned haulage firm near bristol, the boss is out when i arrive, back behind the wheel. and if it wasn't for me doing the...

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When is a cup cake much more than a cup cake? when it's from a small business struggling to weather inflation. rising fuel costs and a job market that, frankly, has a lot more openings than available workers. the cup cake now a symbol of the struggles nationwide as cnns with nadia romero reports zwl. >> reporter: every step of the baking process now costs more. >> when you look at your cost of goods sold and you're like whoa. >> almost eight years ago kabbara and henry started cup cakery in east lake georgia, .baking business almost a bust during the pandemic shutdowns. >> that two weeks was t...