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Heidi the Economic Policy institute is a think tank centered on middle income in Economic Policy discussions, to use the tools of economics to actually uplift those people. John how are low and middle income people doing in todays economy . Heidi that is a very good question. This recovery has been an absolutely remarkable to cover. Recovery. We lost 22 million jobs in march and april of 2020. It was the most sinking feeling i could imagine. It was twice as many jobs we lost during covid compared to the Great Recession ended took and it took 10 years to recover from the Great Recession. So i thought this was going to be a nightmare and was going to particularly had low and middle income people. Because that is what happens when there is a recession and what happens when there is a slow recovery like the aftermath of the Great Recession. Congress did step up to do the kinds of policies that we needed to spur a strong recovery. And we have had this remarkable recovery. Right now, the pri

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