Fewer Americans are earning a living wage
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A new report from Dayforce and the Living Wage Institute found that just over half of full-time workers earn enough to provide for themselves and their families. Wages have been rising, just not as quickly as costs. Familiar racial and gender gaps persisted, too — and got wider in 2025. But first, GameStop is trying to buy eBay for $56 billion, though it's unclear where all that money would come from. Then, is the robotaxi revolution ever coming?
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| 0:00.0 | Storms, floods, and fires are ever more extreme. |
| 0:04.2 | And yet, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is fighting for its life. |
| 0:08.5 | I've never been a big fan of FEMA. |
| 0:10.0 | FEMA's a disaster. |
| 0:11.1 | FEMA's a dirty way. |
| 0:11.9 | People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps. |
| 0:14.8 | Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it? |
| 0:18.2 | And can we survive without FEMA? |
| 0:20.6 | American Emergency, the |
| 0:22.0 | movement to kill FEMA is a brand new series from WNYC's on the media. Listen, wherever you get your |
| 0:28.5 | podcasts. When your eyes are bigger than your wallet, the business edition from Marketplace. I'm Sabree Beneshore in New York. GameStop, |
| 0:40.2 | the gaming company, is trying to buy eBay, the not gaming company, and e-commerce site. GameStop |
| 0:47.0 | is the smaller of the two, but it says it is down to spend about $56 billion on the acquisition. Marketplace's |
| 0:53.5 | Nova Saffo has more. |
| 0:55.0 | GameStop's chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen sent a letter yesterday to eBay's board of directors |
| 0:59.8 | offering the cash-and-stock buyout. He plans to take over as CEO of the combined company. |
| 1:06.0 | Cohen says GameStop has already accumulated about a 5% stake in eBay, but the video game retailer faces |
| 1:12.7 | challenges because it is the smaller of the two companies with a market value that's about a |
| 1:17.8 | fourth of eBay's. Cohen says his company would finance the purchase with $9 billion in cash and |
| 1:23.6 | up to $20 billion in debt from TD securities. It did not account for the rest of the purchase |
| 1:28.8 | cost. Cohen told the Wall Street Journal that the tie-up could create a competitor to Amazon. He also |
| 1:34.6 | told the paper that he would launch a hostile bid if eBay's board rejected a merger. I'm Novos Hoff, |
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