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Inflation with Richard Wolff & Dean Baker

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Expanding Broadband Will Increase Productivity

Many of the build back better plans will be about increasing supply. You expand your labor force if everyone has access to broadband, cause you're allowing people, name people, to get jobs that wouldn't get otherwise. Having more access to broad band is one way to increase perductivity. If we modernized our ports, we could get a lot more goods through them. So these are things that will increase supply and in that way, put downward pressure on inflation.

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