On the recordJune 12, 2018
There is actually some really fun and wonderful things we are seeing out there in the data. As we were also talking about the unemployment numbers, what has also been amazing is, if you look at home prices, if you actually look at savings rates, and if you actually look at a lot of the data that we care about as a society, it is important that we actually embrace and understand we are in what we would refer to as a Goldilocks economy. {time} 2045 Madam Speaker, if I had come to, like our previous thought experiment a year ago, and said we would be in this sort of world where the inflation numbers are within the calculation of the Fed targets, where we have more jobs than workers, when we are actually seeing incomes really beginning to rise, when we are actually seeing some first signs of data saying for the first time in decades that income inequality is actually shrinking because there are so many more of our brothers and sisters in the labor force with rising incomes, this would actually be really exciting. I will make the challenge to every Member in Congress: How do we not screw it up? How do we keep that engine going forward? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko). She has the district right alongside me and she will basically tell the story of what she sees happening on the west side of Maricopa County.
