Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

We've had some dope episodes in the past and today is just like the rest of them.

Just an amazing and amazing episode. We'll be interviewing the new Georgia

Project executive director in say UFAT to talk about Georgia politics and

voting rights. You know voting rights are a huge issue not just in

Georgia but across the country. We'll dig into all of that. But before we get the

inset, I wanted to talk about the economy, particularly the news last week the prices are moving up, that the

job numbers weren't what we thought they'd be and you're already starting to see Republican

talking points emerge that are seeking to slow down the Biden economic agenda.

In case you missed it, the April jobs showed that the U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs at a time when economists expected the economy to add almost 1 million jobs.

At the same time, we saw prices raise about 0.8% in April, an increase of about 4.2% compared to this time last year.

This was the highest increase in prices of things like gas, food, clothing, etc. since 2008. So the first thing we hear from Republicans is that

the additional $300 in unemployment assistance unemployed Americans are

receiving is why we're seeing slower than expected job growth.

And they're saying that the Biden economic agenda is too ambitious

and is pushing prices too high with the economy potentially overheating.

So that's BS. But for starters, there's an easy

solution to slow job growth and that's raising wages to make it worse people's

time to work in the middle of a pandemic. Attacking temporary unemployment assistance

when Americans are still looking for work

and recovering from a pandemic is short-sighted.

Equally short-sighted is taking a month of data

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