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This week’s Feedback Friday topic is:
Cost of Living
Governor Larry Hogan announced on Thursday that all Maryland state employees will receive a 4.5 percent wage hike, which he touted as a cost-of-living adjustment. Some in the private sector have also assuaged their employees’ economic burden by granting similar wage adjustments. This, all in response to increasing inflation, cost of borrowing money (interest rate hikes), and price points of consumer goods, food, energy, etc. It seems every supply chain has been affected by, first, pandemic pressures, and second, the emergence of inflation and challenging U.S. and global economies (War in Ukraine, for example, has hit the global energy supply chain hard).
How are you handling the rising cost of living for yourself, dependents, employees, etc.? And what do you attribute inflation and the general state of the economy to? Solutions?
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