Feb 3, 2021

Succession at Amazon

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Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO and taking on a new role as executive chairman. What will his new involvement look like? Plus, taxes on unemployment benefits and whether they might change. And, the pandemic-battered hair salon industry, run disproportionately by women of color.

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Is Jeff Bezos still in charge at Amazon?

by David Brancaccio , Nova Safo and Daniel Shin

Feb 3, 2021

Despite Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, "it's still going to be his show," one corporate governance professor says.

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For those who received unemployment benefits last year, a possible tax surprise

by Samantha Fields

Feb 3, 2021

Millions were on unemployment at some point in 2020. A new measure in Congress proposes waiving taxes on some of that income.

People can choose to have taxes taken out of their benefits during the year, but most don’t, said Elaine Maag at the the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

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COVID & Unemployment

The California shutdown drove some salons underground

by Jasmine Garsd

Feb 3, 2021

California salons are reopening after months of lockdown. But some never closed down completely.

A client gets a haircut at a barbershop operating outdoors last summer in Los Angeles.

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Music from the episode

Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi Radiohead

The team

David Brancaccio Host

Victoria Craig Host, BBC

Stephen Ryan Senior Producer, BBC

Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC

Daniel Shin Producer

Jay Siebold Technical Director

Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer

Alex Schroeder Producer

Erika Soderstrom Producer

Rose Conlon Producer

Brian Allison Technical Director

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