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NWSOFA Indivisible Fiscal and Economic Issue Team April Meeting
April 8, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
RSVP: NWSOFA Indivisible April Fiscal and Economic Issues Meeting
Our April Fiscal and Economic Issues meeting will be Monday, April 8th at 7 p.m. at the Schaumburg Public Library. Our meetings typically last until about 9:30 p.m. Then many of us head over to Lou Malnati’s for further discussions.
Real GDP growth numbers for 2018 came in at 2.9% (2.86%) as we predicted. So it looks like we probably won’t get 3% growth for any year under President Trump. With the revised 4th quarter GDP numbers that came out last week, even the White House’s alternative four quarter calculation falls just short at 2.97%.
The March jobs numbers come out next Friday, April 5th. Presumably any effects of the partial shutdown will have dissipated. So no more 300,000 jobs in January and only 20,000 jobs in February type numbers.
Ed Spire will do a presentation on “Restore our Democracy.”
“We’ll compare and contrast Democratic healthcare proposals and give an update on the latest uninsured statistics.
We’ll analyze federal revenue and spending trends in 2017 vs. 2018.
We’ll also explain the trade deficit and its cousin, the current account. This will give us the background for discussing why the President’s tax cuts and goal of reducing the trade deficit are contradictory.”
You can view our March meeting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPa7HLrtxKg
The PowerPoint presentations from March are at
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