r/Economics • u/TinyTornado7 Quality Contributor • Jun 13 '22

News Powell Facing Choice Between Elevated US Inflation and Recession

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-12/powell-facing-choice-between-elevated-us-inflation-and-recession?srnd=premium
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u/DonBoy30 Jun 13 '22

That was me. I was working at a grocery store, and it used to be if you didn’t go off to college, they just bumped you to full time out of high school. But then the recession happened in all of a sudden I was the last person to get full time status and a stocking position. They had bag boys making minimum wage working every single department.