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that could have wide-ranging impacts on the U&period;S&period; economy&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">Since there has been a spike in these labor costs&comma; companies like Amazon that depend on cheap truck transport are &ldquo&semi;forced&rdquo&semi; to offset that by raising prices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">&ldquo&semi;Already&comma; delivery delays are common&comma; and businesses such as Amazon&comma; General Mills and Tyson Foods are raising prices as they pass higher transportation costs along to consumers&period; On a recent call with investors&comma; a Walmart executive called rising transportation costs the company&rsquo&semi;s primary &ldquo&semi;head wind&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>The Washington Post&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">According to a recent report from the American Trucking Associations&comma; U&period;S&period; freight companies were short by 50&comma;000 truck drivers last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">With the unemployment rate being so low&comma; transport companies are having difficulty competing for labor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">Trucking jobs are less than desirable&period; They require long periods on the road away from home&period; The small cabins of the truck don&rsquo&semi;t offer comfortable sleeping accommodations and the food options on the road are often unhealthy&period; With all of this in mind&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s even more difficult to recruit truckers in the current market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">Not to mention&comma; President Donald Trump has pushed to keep businesses from hiring cheap foreign workers&period;&nbsp&semi;<em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Breitbart<&sol;em> points out that the Democrats stance on immigration is perhaps a self-serving one&period; The nation&rsquo&semi;s previous loose asylum laws allowed immigrants to be imported to work as low-cost labor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">&ldquo&semi;But Trump has used his legal authority to curb illegal immigration over the Mexican border&comma; sharply lowered the inflow of workers via the refugee agencies&comma; and has minimized&nbsp&semi;the growth of the&nbsp&semi;guest-worker&nbsp&semi;programs&period; He has also blocked a&nbsp&semi;business push&nbsp&semi;in Congress for another amnesty of &lsquo&semi;dreamers&rsquo&semi; and other illegals&comma; as well as for a huge expansion in the number of guest-workers&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>Breitbart&period;<&sol;em> &rdquo&semi;Trump&rsquo&semi;s opposition has forced business groups to lower their amnesty goals down to just 1&period;8 million illegals&period; House Speaker Paul Ryan pushed that&nbsp&semi;medium-sized&nbsp&semi;amnesty goal in June&nbsp&semi;but was&nbsp&semi;blocked&nbsp&semi;by 112 GOP House legislators&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">The federal government provides green cards to 1 million legal immigrants and temporary work-permits to 3 million foreign workers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">Although cheap labor helps to spike company profits&comma; real estate prices&comma; along with state and local taxes increase&period; Then there&rsquo&semi;s the 5 million Americans who are losing out on these jobs because they can&rsquo&semi;t compete with cheap labor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">But with less imported foreign labor&comma; more companies are forced to hire more Americans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">This isn&rsquo&semi;t the first time <em>The Washington Post<&sol;em> has covered this issue in the last month either&period; The publication went as far as to say that the transport industry is driving the spike in inflation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">&ldquo&semi;These trends&comma; along with rising fuel costs and strong consumer demand for shipped goods&comma; are driving&nbsp&semi;the price of freight&nbsp&semi;sky high &mdash&semi; up from last year by about four times the rate of inflation&comma; and the worst may be yet to come&period; Demand for truck space is growing while supply is shrinking&period; Given that&nbsp&semi;70 percent&nbsp&semi;of America&rsquo&semi;s freight moves by highway&comma; this runaway cost engine is felt in all corners of the economy&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>The Washington Post&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center"><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Both of these recent articles have a bias stance and appear to be propaganda to prepare readers for the spike in the prices of consumer products&period; It looks like Jeff Bezos is using The Washington Post to further his own personal agenda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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