'Machiavelli for Women'; Plus, 'What We Do in the Shadows'

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Sam is joined by NPR's The Indicator host Stacey Vanek Smith to talk about her new book, Machiavelli for Women and how women in the workplace are still falling behind. Plus, actor Harvey Guillén on the new season of the FX show What We Do in the Shadows and not waiting for people to be comfortable with his "brownness, queerness and roundness" to be comfortable in his own skin.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:03.0	This week, working women and the economy,
0:06.5	and what we do in the shadows.
0:09.4	All right, let's start the show.
0:12.8	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:15.6	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:17.0	And this week, we check in on the economy.
0:20.0	Because honestly, what is up with this economy?
0:23.0	You know, the unemployment rate is still a lot higher than it was
0:26.0	before the pandemic.
0:27.5	The latest jobs report from August, it fell way short of what many
0:31.7	economists were hoping for just over 200,000 new jobs last month.
0:36.5	Not impressive and a lot lower than the more than 700,000 jobs that were expected.
0:43.5	And that low number is even more strange and more sad when you juxtapose it
0:48.5	with another reality of this economy.
0:51.5	Millions of Americans are still unemployed, while so many jobs still go unfilled.
0:57.0	Corporations have taken note and they are responding.
1:00.0	This week, Amazon actually raised its average starting wage to attract more workers
1:04.5	and Amazon also announced that they would begin paying college tuition for some
1:09.0	frontline employees.
1:10.5	Other big companies like Target and Walmart, they have made similar pledges to
1:14.5	pay for books and other tuition costs.
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