How popular food brands get away with using prison labor
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A two-year investigation by the Associated Press digs into the prison labor behind the foods we eat every day. We’ll discuss how incarcerated people’s labor is tied to some of the world’s biggest companies, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Walmart. Then, we’ll unpack the negotiations over a bipartisan border security deal. And, a wild conspiracy theory involving the NFL, Taylor Swift and the election?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands” from The Associated Press
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- “Lankford defends bipartisan border security bill after attacks by Trump, GOP” from The Washington Post
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- “OKGOP State Committee Condemns James Lankford” from OKGrassroots
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- “Vivek Goes Full Tinfoil Hat With New Taylor Swift Election Conspiracy” from The Daily Beast
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- “Young Swifties are tuning in to the NFL. Their dads are loving it” from The Washington Post
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- “Walmart’s latest perk for U.S. store managers? Stock grants” from ABC News
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- “Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right, let's go. |
| 0:02.0 | Gah. |
| 0:04.0 | Freckin. |
| 0:05.0 | Gah. |
| 0:07.0 | Feels like a Monday to me. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everybody I'm |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Kyle Rizdall welcome back to Make Me Smart |
| 0:15.2 | where we make today make sense even though you've forgotten your new |
| 0:18.3 | computer password and you can't get in your freaking stuff. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, I'm so sorry. |
| 0:24.0 | I just are you kidding me? |
| 0:27.0 | It's a Monday. |
| 0:28.0 | You just like have to write it off as that. |
| 0:30.0 | Anyway, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you to everyone joining us on what is very much a Monday today, January the 29th. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh my God, right. |
| 0:41.0 | So I will get over myself. We are going to, in this order, do some news and then do some smiles, and then get out of here. What do you got? |
| 0:52.0 | I, my news is this big AP investigation. |
| 0:56.0 | The Associated Press does amazing investigations. |
| 0:58.0 | They're one of the few places that still has resources to do years long investigations and this new one is a doozy that |
| 1:05.5 | they're out with today. headline is Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden |
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