Yet before the pandemic, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent without triggering inflation, correct?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Yet before the pandemic, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent without triggering inflation, correct?”
On the recordJuly 13, 2021
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Ocasio-Cortez questions inflation concerns related to low unemployment rates pre-pandemic.
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