Class, income and a shift in American politics
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
New data shows Black and Latino voters are shifting away from the Democratic Party and toward the GOP. But is this shift real? We’ll get into it and discuss the possible economic forces at play. Plus, what you really need to know about President Joe Biden’s budget proposal. And, the similarities between humans and bumblebees!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “White House Forecasts Somewhat Higher Interest Rates” from The Wall Street Journal
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- Survey on racial realignment in American politics from John Burn-Murdoch on X
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- “Bees Reveal a Human-Like Collective Intelligence We Never Knew Existed” from ScienceAlert
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| 0:16.2 | Hello everyone I'm Kya Risdall. Just kidding. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to |
| 0:20.5 | Make Meek me Smart where we make today make sense. |
| 0:23.6 | I am, in fact, Kai Risdell. |
| 0:25.0 | Today is Monday, it's the 11th of March. |
| 0:28.9 | Yes, that's what it is, the 11th of March. |
| 0:31.5 | It is. |
| 0:32.0 | And today we're going to do some news and some smiles. |
| 0:34.7 | Starting with the news, Mr Real Risdahl, what caught your attention today? |
| 0:39.2 | So I just want to make, I mean you know this and a lot of people who listen to us know this but you know on the off chance that people don't really know it |
| 0:47.6 | That whole budget thing that is leading the New York Times today and most of the major news publications and also |
| 0:54.4 | NPR newscasts and all that jazz |
| 0:59.0 | it's fantasy land it's never gonna happen it's the president's spending plan the president you know proposes Congress disposes let's not get all hot and bothered about it that's |
| 1:05.6 | item one the really substantive part of it is this thing that Nick Timrose in the |
| 1:09.0 | Wall Street Journal picked up on that the White House is kind of expecting higher interest rates this year, which is really |
| 1:16.1 | interesting. |
| 1:17.1 | Predicting the three-month T bill is going to average 5.1% this year, which is a touch |
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