#LancasterCountyReport: Food prices still rising as the "Help Wanted" signs retreat. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSocietya
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
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#LancasterCountyReport: Food prices still rising as the "Help Wanted" signs retreat. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSocietya
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-a-pennsylvania-county-came-to-embody-the-country-s-immigration-divide/ar-BB1mLLGn
1942 Amistice day, Lancaster PA
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| 0:00.0 | This is CVS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Lancaster County, the best county and the best state of the union. |
| 0:10.0 | Jim McTeague, former Washington editor Barron's, is here to report on Lancaster County. |
| 0:15.0 | This is where the Amish and the farmers and the skies and the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside all come together. |
| 0:24.8 | Jim is there to report on the shopping, |
| 0:28.7 | the confidence, and of course there is Thaddeus Stevens at Trade |
| 0:32.1 | School that is doing very well thank you |
| 0:34.4 | very much because it's turning out welders and other occupations that are much |
| 0:39.2 | in demand across the country always have been. |
| 0:41.6 | Jim a very good day to you. |
| 0:43.3 | We begin with your episode of the week, which is a drive to a trout stream, I believe, |
| 0:50.2 | you're a fisherman in Pennsylvania 65 miles away. |
| 0:53.6 | Where did you go and what did you learn on this drive in your red roaster |
| 0:58.1 | roadster Tesla? |
| 1:00.1 | Well, John, I left to East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Lancaster City, and I drove about 65 miles to the little Allegheny River right outside of Allentown and it's in a build-up suburban area with high |
| 1:17.6 | rises and you take a left down Fish Hatchery road and suddenly you a beautiful pristine drought |
| 1:28.3 | throughout the stream. What struck me on the drive which consists of a lot of two lane highways it's not all super highways I did not see a single help |
| 1:39.8 | Wornit sign in any business, garage, restaurant, high-tech industry, hospitals, you name it. |
| 1:49.4 | No help wanted signs. |
| 1:51.8 | Like you see here in Lancaster County, Lancaster County, almost every |
| 1:56.5 | business concern has a help one hit sign on the front lawn. So it tells me that people are getting more selective in who they hire probably |
| 2:08.4 | takes longer to find a job these days. These are for service jobs because that's where you |
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