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Professor Greg Wright weighs in on "Unemployment fears jump to pandemic levels"

April 14, 2025
Americans are starting to feel they're at greater risk of losing their jobs, a new survey from the New York Fed shows.Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Shifts in economic policy are driving that insecurity, said Greg Wright, an economics professor at the University of California, Merced. That feeling isn’t caused by any one tariff, but rather the onslaught of tariff policy changes. 

“A lot of companies are probably at this point just taking a kind of wait-and-see attitude. And a wait-and-see attitude is kind of, you know, a slow-growth attitude,” Wright said.

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