disruptions that the pandemic brought to american families. if we look inside the labor market, there s more dislocations. you mentioned businesses can t find enough workers. we have a supply and demand imbalance in the labor market. folks in the business community, the chamber of commerce, small businesses say an extra $300 a week in unemployment insurance that states have been giving that the government granted as part of the rescue plant is keeping people from getting out of the house and into the work force. 25 states, mostly republican-led states are canceling those unemployment benefits this month. so that $300 a week will go away for a lot of folks. for the rest, president biden said yesterday, and they said they ll do it, on september 5th, the rest of those $300 a week unemployment benefits go away as well. that may bring people back into the work force and correct some of the supply/demand imbalance, about 14 million people could fall into poverty this year. if you take that m
and this other inmate look alike? it s weird. we ll have all the details in the late breaking developments top of the hour on studio b. sales of existing homes sinking down 3.pay the% from last month. only 30% of first-time home sales were first-time buyers. thanks to both of you for being here. what s going on out there. why are these numbers still oh bad? we have all the same problems. supply, demand imbalance. unemployment issues. is there any good news except maybe the stock market ticking up? i don t know. there are great deals out