but not fast enough to keep up with price rises. our economics correspondent, andy verity, has more details. all good? business has been challenging, up and down. it has been consistently inconsistent. one day we are super busy, we can t keep up. the next day we don t have any work on. a year ago, construction companies like this builder of grand design style renovations, based near heathrow airport, were struggling to cope with the surge in demand for new projects as the economy bounced back from the pandemic. there was no lack of work, but profits were squeezed by the rocketing cost of raw materials and the shortage of skilled staff that sent wages soaring. it is difficult to meet demand when there is also less money in the jobs because the cost of labour has risen so much. so we have labourers earning the money which plumbers and carpenters were earning, like, two and a half, three years ago. but everybody wants the job to be cheaper because they have no certainty and the
you made it. you made it to saturday, april 29th. always my favorite day of the week. good to have you along. i m victor black well. welcome to cnn this morning. and i feel like it s starting to warm up. it gets warm, cools. we re settling in, folks. we are. thanks so much for sharing part of our saturday morning with us. here s what we re watching. more than 20 million people are facing severe threats of storms again after parts of the south were pelted with baseball-sized hail this week. the main threat we re watching out for. the president can no longer ignore by not negotiating. we are still waiting for house republicans to produce a budget. they produced a ransom note. democrats and republicans spar over the debt limit. will this week s republican plan force the white house to negotiate spending cuts? we ll discuss. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians yesterday. our team is live on scene where rescue e
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