Oct 14, 2021

Gentrification meets Texas barbecue

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We'll also hear how investments in green energy could spawn a trillion-dollar industry and how a metal foundry is dealing with rising aluminum and zinc prices.

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COVID & Unemployment

While still a long way from pre-pandemic days, the job market's making progress

by Mitchell Hartman

Oct 14, 2021

The number of new jobless claims filed last week was the lowest since March of 2020.

A "Now Hiring" sign is posted in the window of a San Francisco FedEx store on Sep. 16. Last week was the first week with fewer than 300,000 initial unemployment claims since March 14, 2020.

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A Warmer World

Clean energy would create trillion-dollar market and millions of jobs, IEA says

by Samantha Fields

Oct 14, 2021

Just how do researchers calculate that?

Solar panels are shown in Dry Lake Valley, Nevada, in June 2021. Investments in clean energy would both help countries minimize average global temperature increases and make clean energy rival the oil market.

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Shelf Life

What's the link between physical and economic mobility?

by Parag Khanna

Oct 14, 2021

In his latest book, globalization scholar Parag Khanna looks at how and why our lives may become a lot more mobile in the decades to come.

A demonstrator holds a banner during the Unteilbar (Indivisible) protest for social justice and climate change action on Sep. 4, in Berlin, Germany.

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Farm country frets over impact of John Deere strike

by Caroline Champlin

Oct 14, 2021

More than 10,000 workers are on strike after they rejected a deal on wages and benefits.

More than one-third of John Deere’s workforce in the U.S. and Canada are on strike.

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My Economy

How this metal foundry grew its business during the pandemic

by Minju Park

Oct 14, 2021

Although prices for aluminum and zinc are ticking up, Adam Schaller, vice president of a Michigan metal foundry, says business is growing.

Prices for aluminum base scrap picked up 9.7% from August to September.

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BBQ used to be poor folks' food. Now, some of it is $36 per pound.

by Andy Uhler

Oct 14, 2021

Pitmasters have become social media and television stars. A few have won James Beard Awards.

Tootsie Tomanetz, the 86-year-old pitmaster at Snow's BBQ, tends to sausages on a Saturday morning in Lexington, Texas. Tomanetz has been cooking barbecue since 1966 and says she never could have imagined the popularity she's witnessing today.

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Music from the episode

Agrimony MF DOOM

Toad Lick East Forest

Philodendron Fields Monster Rally

State Of The Art Gotye

Wavelengths Mocky

Ride or Die (feat. Foster the People) The Knocks, Foster The People

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

Richard Cunningham Associate Producer I

Dylan Miettinen Associate Digital Producer

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