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BY WAYNE INCE · MIAMI, FLORIDA · BIG SARGE ECONOMY WATCH · AUGUST 25, 2026 I did 23 years in the Air Force before I retired to a Florida that keeps getting more expensive by the month. The Dale Mabry Publix parking lot does not care which president signed which tariff. The line at the VA pharmacy does not care. Neither does the Wawa pump that keeps ticking past what the young mother in front of me was planning to spend. Trump calls these tariffs strength. They a

By Wayne Ince (Big Sarge) · big-sarge.blog At Jewish Community Services of South Florida this summer, eighteen Haitian employees finished their last shifts. Some had worked as home health aides there for more than twenty years. Four hundred Holocaust survivors relied on their care. When the work permits expired, the aides who were left picked up the missing hours and the agency called it overtime. That is what Florida just did to the people who bathe its parents, lift its dis

Wix.com AI generated image only *By Wayne "Big Sarge" Ince* The June jobs report came out while people were watching fireworks. It said the U.S. added 57,000 jobs, about half of what forecasters wanted, and the share of adults working or looking for work slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021.[1][2] The headline unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2 percent, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics was clear about why. People left the labor force. They did not find better

According to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department, the US economy added 64,000 jobs in November while the unemployment rate rose to 4.6%. The jobless rate is now the highest since September 2021.

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