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Despite Tumultuous Stock Market, Some Economists Say Inflation Threat Is Exaggerated

by Jim Zarroli

The economic expansion has come with high corporate profits, but barely any wage growth. Now, markets are in a tizzy over a a recent bump up in wages. But Germany has an even tighter job market without higher inflation, and one measure of job market tightness — the number of people who quit jobs to take new ones — remains low.
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Concerns Rise As Missouri's Legislature Is Struggling To Fund Basic Services

by Jason Rosenbaum

In Missouri, the state's embattled governor and GOP legislature are struggling to fund basic services, such as roads, higher education institutions, and health care for disabled. Even some Republicans are worried that the state is following a path that Kansas took earlier in the decade, when the GOP starkly cut taxes — and later had to raise them.
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Why Men Remain In High Power Positions Despite Claims Of Abuse

After the reports that some officials in the White House knew about abuse allegations against Rob Porter months before he resigned from his role as staff secretary, author Leslie Morgan Steiner penned an op-ed in The Washington Post about the problems with domestic violence victims not being taken seriously. Steiner shares with NPR's Ari Shapiro her own experience with domestic abuse.
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Bipartisan Budget Agreement Spends Too Much Money For Most Conservative Republicans

The federal government reopened after a brief government shutdown and fallout continues over the dismissal of former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter. NPR's Ari Shapiro is joined by Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, and Erick Erickson, of The Resurgent blog, to discuss the shutdown, Porter and more of this week's top political stories.
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