Economy
NJ Governor’s race; what teeth tell us about our evolution
Guests: Matt Friedman, Brent Johnson, Peter Ungar The primary election for New Jersey governor is less than a mon ...
Air Date: May 15, 2017
Listen 00:48:55Immigration politics, policies and history
Guests: Adam Cohen, Laura Meckler, Michael Grabell In his first months in office, President Trump has prioritized ...
Air Date: May 5, 2017
Listen 00:49:29Scale of immigrants’ political, economic impact depends on who you ask
About 160,000 unauthorized immigrants live in the Philadelphia region. Deducing their impact depends on who you ask.
9 years ago
Trump’s first (almost) 100 days
Guests: James Peterson, Joe Watkins, Charlie Gerow The first 100 days metric that the media uses to scrutinize a ...
Air Date: April 26, 2017
Listen 00:49:30Troubling times for retail; Trump and trade
Guests: Neil Irwin, David Bell, Derek Thompson The retail industry has been hurting lately. Big department stores ...
Air Date: April 24, 2017
Listen 00:49:30Venezuela; Russia/Trump ties; Iran Nuclear Deal
Demonstrations in Venezuela against President Nicholas Maduro this week have left three people dead. Opposition leaders accuse the Presid ...
Air Date: April 21, 2017
Listen 00:49:27Raising the minimum wage is good for small businesses
Last week, NewsWorks published an article about a recent report from the Independent Fiscal Office which suggested that the positive impa ...
9 years ago
What should fuel America? Wind? Sun? Cow dung? We’re having a power struggle over that – it’s political, but it’s ...
Air Date: April 13, 2017
Listen 49:20Gov. Wolf’s minimum wage plans run into economic reality
Gov. Tom Wolf’s rose-colored minimum wage plans have run into green-eyeshade economic reality. A new ...
9 years ago
“Deaths of despair”; then, O’Reilly’s troubles
Guests: Angus Deaton, Anne Case, David Folkenflik For most western countries, mortality rates have been in declin ...
Air Date: April 13, 2017
Listen 00:49:28Guest: Andrew Bacevich, James Kitfield Recent global events are giving the Trump administration their first real ...
Air Date: April 10, 2017
Listen 00:49:26The Gorsuch confirmation; ‘Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution’
Guests: Ganesh Sitaraman, Ed O’Keefe Growing economic inequality is destroying our democracy. That’s th ...
Air Date: April 7, 2017
Listen 00:49:29A Scranton native’s take on Trump’s commitment to coal
Has President Donald Trump ever heard of Scranton blackfoot? As I watched him posing with coal miners and repeating easy bring-back-jobs ...
9 years ago
Trump’s newest EO and the environment; protests in Russia; combating ISIS
Guests: Robinson Meyer, Alec Luhn, Rukmini Callimachi We have three stories for today’s edit ...
Air Date: March 29, 2017
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