Oct 30, 2020

Women leaving the workforce is everyone’s problem

Millions of parents are at home with their kids during the school day while also trying to work a job. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Plus: Netflix's price hike, the dollar as a safe haven and the volunteer notaries helping Missouri voters mail in their ballots.

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Unworkable

Child care crisis could cost women $64.5 billion in lost wages

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Oct 30, 2020

A new report quantifies the cost of women pulling back from work to care for kids during the pandemic.

OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images

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Savings take a hit as pandemic lingers

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Oct 30, 2020

People bought more stuff, like cars and home office equipment, an expert says. But also, there haven’t been any more relief checks.

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Americans are contributing more than cash to the 2020 election

by Kimberly Adams

Oct 30, 2020

In Missouri, a change in the law allowed more people to vote by mail, but with a catch. A new group of volunteers stepped up.

Jill Anderson guides Cynthia Barounis through the notarization process outside Rooster restaurant in St. Louis. A change to Missouri law allows most people to vote absentee or by mail, but mail-in ballots must be notarized.

Kimberly Adams

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Netflix's strategy: more original content, but shorter runs

by Jasmine Garsd

Oct 30, 2020

The new reality at the streaming service: Three years is a good run; more than that means a big hit.

Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

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Netflix's strategy: more original content, but shorter runs

by Jasmine Garsd

Oct 30, 2020

The new reality at the streaming service: Three years is a good run; more than that means a big hit.

Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

Savings take a hit as pandemic lingers

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Oct 30, 2020

People bought more stuff, like cars and home office equipment, an expert says. But also, there haven’t been any more relief checks.

Pixabay

LISTEN

EMBED

Unworkable

Child care crisis could cost women $64.5 billion in lost wages

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Oct 30, 2020

A new report quantifies the cost of women pulling back from work to care for kids during the pandemic.

OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

Americans are contributing more than cash to the 2020 election

by Kimberly Adams

Oct 30, 2020

In Missouri, a change in the law allowed more people to vote by mail, but with a catch. A new group of volunteers stepped up.

Kimberly Adams

LISTEN

EMBED

Music from the episode

bloodline Ariana Grande

Hotsauce Chelsea Monet

Ghostwriter RJD2

Blue Monday Pete Rock

Skipping Rocks Oddisee

I Am the Lion King PAPA

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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