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Marketplace All-in-One

Maybe let’s just not talk about politics at work?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

“We’ve just softened the boundaries a little bit and allowed politics to creep into the workplace,” says Sean Westwood, director of the Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth. As part of our Office Politics series in the lead-up to the election, we’re focusing on how companies intensify or ease political divides. Today: the argument for just not talking about politics or other divisive matters at work. But first, Trump and Harris turn their attention to automakers.

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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.

0:55.0

One expert's advice, just say no to talking politics at work.

1:01.0

I'm David Brancatia. First, the car is king in the swing state of Michigan and yesterday Donald Trump spoke at the Detroit Economic Club with sweeping promises on tax and trade policy he said would shore up American car jobs.

1:15.0

The Harris campaign preemptively enlisted the Auto Workers Union to argue some of

1:19.6

Trump's plans are job killers.

1:22.0

Here's Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser.

1:24.0

Trump said he would make the interest on auto loans fully tax deductible.

1:29.0

That would have to go through Congress though. The former president also pledged to renegotiate the 2020

1:34.8

trade deal with Mexico and Canada and hike tariffs to keep China from

1:39.2

exporting cars it makes in Mexico into the U.S. said the US should prioritize making gas-powered cars.

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