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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday August 17th

2024. This is the excerpt. Today Kamla Harris has outlined parts of her economic agenda. What did the experts say?

Plus we take a look at new polling around black voters in key battleground states, and why are migrant crossings dropping at the southern border?

Vice President Kamla Harris revealed her economic priorities yesterday.

I spoke with USA Today money and

personal finance reporter Madora Lee for a closer look. Hello Madora.

Hi. So Madora Kamla Harris has revealed some big economic plans.

One thing we've been hearing about

was the possibility of a federal ban on price gouging on groceries.

What would this involve and what do the experts say about this move?

So there are a couple things with the groceries.

She wants to do this first ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.

She wants to make the rules clear that big corporations can't unfairly and excessively

drive up their prices to just be more profitable and give out dividends and stop buybacks to shareholders.

And so she's also going to give the FTC more authority to impose restrictions and

penalties on companies that break those rules and she also restrictions and

she also wants to keep an eye on large companies that want to merge

and maybe control parts of the market

and then be able to raise prices. A lot of progressives like this

because nobody wants to pay a lot of money for food, but I think that economists

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