Periods. Quitetrue, they are gone a bit. Right now, they are really in the one solid work going to of the year, eight or nine weeks where either the house or senate or both are in session in washington. It is absolutely true they spent a lot of time not in washington. Guest i am sure a lot of them would argue that they need to spend time in washington not in washington, in their home district. It is an avenue of criticism that we hear. The president gets criticized when he goes on vacation as well. Im not sure it is fair to say that all those 137 days are not necessarily vacation. Thing, whenther they are back in their districts, they can do a lot of constituent work. There is not much happening in washington. When they are back home, at least they can help something. Host a related story in the washington post. They found 60 of americans say they are inclined to look around for somebody else in the midterm elections, including the majority of democrats, republicans, and independents.
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Joining us is an Infectious Disease specialist. Thank you for being here. My pleasure. Thanks. Kristen im going to take half a minute to embarrass you. Youve been named winner of the carl sagan prize for science popularization. Heres the website with the announcement. This is for your research on a variety of Infectious Diseases and for helping us better understand and combat covid. Congratulations. This is huge. Im a little bit red now, but thanks for bringing this up. Its been really meaningful for me to work with you and a lot of professionals during the pandemic. I think its so important for all of us to communicate with each other. Kristen its well deserved. Congrats. We do appreciate you. We want to start the less embarrassing part, with monkeypox. Zuckerberg sf general is expanding their vaccine clinic hours. Does that mean supply is improving . I think what it means is that weve gotten or are getting to the people who are really intent and enthusiastic about getting it. Im real
Identifying us as having an aggregate demand problem does not mean that there arent labor Market Detailed actions that couldnt help, as well. But lots of attempts to help workers go much better in a tight labor market than they have a chance of doing in a loose labor market. So lets start with the beverage curve. This shows us the Unemployment Rate and the vacancy rate month by month. Bls puts this out each month. And the different colors refer first to earlier Business Cycles and then the green is as we went into the recession the economy was declining. And then we hit the bottom of the recession and the recovery started. And what seems like a slightly odd thing happened, first the vacancy rate went up with unemployment not bunchbudging. And then unemployment dropped a bit without vacancies changing and then we followed this pattern where the path back is consistently above the path down. So thats the picture weve had. And that has led some people to raise the question, is the curve b