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Fight Inflation Without Recession? How Two Top Economists See It

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Can You Lay Off Workers During a Tough Recession?

The optimistic scenario is that you can take some of the tightness out of the job market without laying a bunch of people off. Right now there's all these vacancies that have gone unfilled. Some employers may very well be slower to lay workers off even if they see a slowdown in demand and orders.

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