years, but i suspect he was pretty unfulfilled. the value of the national security card for rudy had diminished rather dramatically by this point. you ended up with this constituency that should have been much more rudy-centric, but american voters evolved on a couple of big things. that guy who works in brown county, wisconsin and has been there for 25 years in a factory making auto parts, his son has had three goddamn tours in iraq and gotten shot once, that guy s job has been offshored, and he has been able to find a job working in a call center for 9 bucks an hour with no health insurance. and he is pissed. i m mad. i ve been mad. i m one of the angry, you know, voters that they ve been discussing for the last year. i am officially running for
used to be 99 cents. rachel: they are now? steve: 9 bucks. bought some yesterday. brian: put eggs in cartons thousands of miles trucks and shelves and very few get broken. great story under reported. steve: until now. brian: until now. let s see if any other network goes with this. once again, please monitor the other channels. rachel: we will. brian: fox news alert. chinese president xi jinping landing moments ago in moscow. meet with his russian counterpart his good buddy vladimir putin later today the threat the alliance poses to the world. that s examined next. at your moment of calm find your potential then own it support your immune system with a potent blend of nutrients and emerge your best every day with emergen-c with the freestyle libre 2 system, know your glucose level and where it s headed. no fingersticks needed.
many stores is now close to $9. before, it was about$3 to $4. companies are blaming it on the rising cost of aluminum, employee wages and hoarding habits during the pandemic. willie, did you hoard pepsi? no, but 9 bucks for a 12-pack of coke? that s out of my price range. a lot of sugar going into the system. doesn t seem like a good deal. too much. jen, as we mentioned, has a special preview of the state of the union. it s streaming on peacock. jen speaks with former presidential speechwriters ahead of tonight s address. jen, i want to get to some of your interviews in a second, but let s talk broadly about the speech. a very important, annual speech, but also a very difficult one because of all the constituencies that want to be heard. exactly. the most important speech of the year that is the most painful to write, hands down. the reason speechwriters, the policy teams in the white house, they start
s thank you for being here. this is about demand for workers, for these type of hourly workers. the company saying in its memo, this is to make sure we have attractive pay in the markets we operate. we talk about layoffs practically every week but that is pretty specific to industries to technology, banks, media companies as well. for the largest economy, it s still a very strong labor market, and demand for these type of hourly workers is still very strong. andy challenger who runs the firm, challenger grand christmas, the labor market remains competitive, particularly at this level. hourly workers are hard to find and companies are continuing to compete for them by raising wages. federal minimum wages are about to go up to a little over 9 bucks an hour soon. this would be above that. target, amazon, they have all already done this, right? we can show you how this compares to other competitors. walmart is on the lower end of the starting range. walmart saying 14 bucks, that work
and raise interest rates man that that s going to be painful for americans. steve: it was in the last quarter of 2021. so, about, what would that be? about six, seven months ago, the federal reserve of san francisco did a survey, and they looked at all the money that got pumped into the economy, which, katie, you were talking about aened will, you were talking about it as well. they figured out that of the inflation rate, which was in the 6s back then, 3% of the inflation was from this vast government spending. so, in other words, you know what? it s on us. the federal government is saying, but that s okay, because they have got a plan. they wants you to pay 8 bucks, 9 bucks, 10 bucks a gallon so you will drive less to save the planet. will: that federal reserve bank, i believe attributed those percentage point of inflation to the $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed by the biden administration. look, there are a lot of contributing factors including