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SC Lede: Are You There Tom Barkin? It's Me, Gavin

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin discusses inflation, workforce shortages and the regional economy with SCETV’s Gavin Jackson
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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin discusses inflation, workforce shortages and the regional economy with SCETV’s Gavin Jackson

This episode of the South Carolina Lede for October 26, 2021, features: the latest on Sen. Hugh Leatherman, the state's most powerful lawmaker, who is receiving hospice care; a look at first lady Jill Biden's visit this week to the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston; a conversation with Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin about inflation and workforce shortages; and more.

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.