It’s election season, which means talking politics at work
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In the run-up to the election, we’re looking at political polarization in America — specifically, the role companies play in intensifying or easing political divides — in our Office Politics series. This time, we’re tackling the touchy subject of talking politics at work, which has become increasingly tense in recent years. We chat with Alison Taylor, executive director of the think tank Ethical Systems, about the interaction between our work and civic lives. And, the “Low-down” on this morning’s inflation numbers with FHN Financial’s Christopher Low.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:09.6 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:14.4 | It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:18.6 | Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change. |
| 0:22.6 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:24.6 | Climate change is here. |
| 0:25.7 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:29.5 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s. |
| 0:35.9 | I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 0:44.7 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis |
| 0:47.5 | to see how the military is preparing for the threat. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:57.0 | Inflation is hopefully moving to the rear view mirror. |
| 1:01.0 | From Marketplace, I'm Sirey Benchor in for David Brancaccio. |
| 1:04.5 | Inflation in the US stood at 2.2% year over year in August. That is according to the |
| 1:10.0 | personal consumption expenditures price index, one measure of inflation. |
| 1:13.7 | Month to month prices rose just a tenth of a percent. |
| 1:16.8 | Those are very good numbers with some caveats. |
| 1:20.3 | Christopher Lowe is chief economist at FHN Financial in New York and joins us to talk about it. |
| 1:24.3 | Hi Chris. |
| 1:25.3 | Good morning, Sabry. |
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