#SmallBusinessAmerica: Architect Billing stable.@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 July 2023
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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Architect Billing stable.@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL Improvement Plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.1 | This is CBS High in the World. I'm John Bachelor. The business of America is small business, |
| 0:40.8 | and I welcome my colleague and friend Jean Marx, the small business columnist for the Guardian |
| 0:45.8 | newspaper UK and US edition. Our hometown newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer and other |
| 0:51.2 | distinguished publications such as The Hill. We begin with good news from the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:56.8 | Pay raises. After years of falling behind inflation, they've now gone ahead of inflation. |
| 1:03.9 | Is this a good thing? Jean, a very good evening to you. Is this a positive? Because |
| 1:07.9 | this is the sort of thing that sometimes is mentioned by the smart people on Wall Street |
| 1:12.7 | as driving inflation and keeping the Federal Reserve on the watch. Good evening to you. |
| 1:18.3 | Hi, John. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword and you have to be careful with the numbers as well. |
| 1:22.9 | The Labor Department reported that wages over the past year have been, |
| 1:28.3 | they're actually over the past month, but on an annualized basis, |
| 1:31.9 | are rising more than 4% while inflation, the most recent indication from the Consumer Price |
| 1:37.6 | Index, is at 3%. Which is good news when you consider that you need workers to be keeping |
| 1:45.9 | up with inflation. For employers or any of you, anybody listening to this conversation and |
| 1:52.4 | if you run a business or in charge of people and you're budgeting for pay raises over the next 12 |
| 1:57.8 | months, the target number there is 4% according to the Department of Labor, but I do want to caution |
| 2:03.5 | you. The Department of Labor takes this information from surveys that it can dox. It has a |
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