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Explain It to Me

Minimum wage research showdown (also Russia)

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sarah, Ezra, and Matt wonk out on the latest minimum wage research and Ted Cruz's new health plan — plus some Russia stuff, too. White Paper: Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vux Media Podcast Network.

0:17.0

I'm Matthew Glacias, joined by Sarah Cliff and Ezra Klein.

0:21.2

We really want to talk today about the big study on the minimum wage that came out of

0:26.9

the University of Washington last week.

0:29.4

There's been a lot of people asking us to talk about it.

0:32.2

I'm really jazzed up about this subject, but white paper segment comes at the end.

0:38.8

We're going to save a lot of time for it.

0:41.0

We've got a lot of say on this.

0:43.2

We want to make sure that we move briskly through a couple of newsier topics.

0:48.3

Ted Cruz, as a big idea, could revolutionize the healthcare debate maybe.

0:54.8

Obviously, the elephant in the room of American politics right now is the revelation that Donald

1:03.4

Trump, Jr. got an email saying, Hey, do you want to come to a meeting where the Russian

1:10.2

government will give you to Famous information about Hillary Clinton?

1:14.7

And he said, wait, as part of the Russian government's effort to support your father's

1:18.6

presidential campaign.

1:19.6

Yes.

1:20.6

And he said, if it's what you say, it is.

1:23.9

I love it.

1:25.4

So, a couple thoughts on this.

1:28.9

One, you just, you do not see documents like this in politics just generally.

1:35.2

This is like when the James Bond villain comes out from behind the curtain.

1:38.6

He says, just to be clear, I'm going to create a super volcano.

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