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“In terms of multigenerational households, the kind of people who tend to live in them tend to have fewer economic resources. It's also much more common amongst nonwhite families. It's very surprising to me in some senses that (growth of multigenerational families) hasn't kind of plateaued so far.” Natasha Pilkauskas
NPR
"Manufacturing companies that are selling abroad and competing with foreign manufacturers may find that they are able to do better with a less-strong dollar." Kathryn Dominguez on the weakening dollar.
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"When the pandemic began, technology was our savior. We turned to technology to be able to work from home, to be able to shop from home, to be able to talk to our doctors from home. But I do think that it's run its course in terms of that growth. And the fact that is resulting in the tech sector having layoffs, to me, symbolizes that we've reached the end of this pandemic era." Betsey Stevenson
PBS NewsHour
“There should be a stronger relationship between homelessness and poverty. The fact that there’s not supports that there’s under-identification taking place. If we don’t actively track that, and have a conversation about what the [homelessness] level really is, we’re being forced to actually look at that decision that we’ve made societally. And we’re not being forced to say, ‘Is this actually what makes sense? Is this actually what we want?’” Jennifer Erb-Downward
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“Corporations have celebrated higher prices in their earnings calls ever since the history of the earnings call. Blaming inflation on greed is like blaming a plane crash on gravity. Corporations have always tried to raise prices whenever they could. Still greed, but that greed forces them to offer low prices 'cause they're trying to outmuscle their competitor.” Justin Wolfers
NPR
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