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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: California Raids
Date: 01/22/25 11:56 PM
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And the ripple effect could soon hit supermarkets, as the chaos surrounding Trump’s strict immigration policies – which already include stepped-up ICE raids – are already threatening to send food prices soaring before long, according to a report in The New Republic.

“Bakersfield, California saw a massive drop off in the number of field workers showing up for work Tuesday while ICE agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers,” the outlet reported...

... Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters that the events “sent shockwaves through the entire community.”

“People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school,” Creamer told the publication. “Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at California State University, Bakersfield offered concern for the food industry as a whole.

“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,” he said to CalMatters. “You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm.”


newsbreak.com - Farms already seeing massive drop off in workers as mass deportations begin report

Well, we'll feel this at the grocery store soon. Why do I have this feeling we're screwed - that it's inevitable Trump will set off a recession?
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