Middle Class Musts

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On the Gist, unasked for resignation advice. And, today's installment of Remembrances of Things Trump: toilets for well-endowed men. In the interview, it's part two of Mike's conversation with Jim Tankersley, author and New York Times economics reporter. Tankersley provides solutions to productivity gains, explains how access to education in America is not enough of a tool for progress and that extending opportunities, like V.C. to women and BIPOC, will create more opportunities leading to a virtuous cycle promoting a new thriving middle class. Tankersley's book is The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class. In the spiel, Georgia senators buying stocks. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by SAP Concurs.
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0:30.0	The following program may contain potty talk, no guarantee, but it just may.
0:39.0	Sturze date December 10, 2020, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:44.0	A few days ago, I spoke about the tendency in American life to offer an unasked for
0:49.0	and very unlikely to be heated, piece of resignation advice to one's foes.
0:55.0	The Georgia Secretary of State should resign.
0:58.0	The Pennsylvania Secretary of State should resign.
1:01.0	No, she tells the politicians telling her to resign.
1:04.0	They're the ones who should resign.
1:06.0	Today in Charlottesville, Virginia, the chief of police held a press conference.
1:10.0	At issue, the local Unitarian Church had had a 68-year-old member they said was racially
1:17.0	profiled by the police department and their leader, Reverend Dr. Linda Olsen Peoples,
1:23.0	had called on the police to give an apology.
1:26.0	Some student groups at UVA called for the police officer's firings.
1:31.0	Today, police chief Dr. Rochelle Brackney, college town, everyone's doctor,
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