O Fraser fir

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There’s about a 1 in 5 chance your Christmas tree came from North Carolina this year. But growing them isn’t easy. In this episode, we check in with Fraser fir farmers in the Asheville area, who took a major hit from Hurricane Helene. Plus: Christmas Day football streams on Netflix, higher minimum wages for many Americans in 2025, and Arctic tundra is transforming from carbon sink to carbon source.

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1:34.7	We've got a wintry mix in store today, Christmas trees, football, and a trip to the Arctic from American public media. This is Marketplace. In Baltimore, I'm Amy Scott in for Kai Rizdahl.
1:37.0	It's Tuesday, December 24th.
1:38.1	Good to have you with us.
1:47.6	More than 9 million workers will get a raise next week when 21 states and 48 cities and counties increase their minimum wages.
1:57.9	Recent increases elsewhere are one reason workers at the bottom of the wage scale have seen their incomes rise even faster than higher earners in the past few years.
2:02.3	By next year, about a third of U.S. workers will live in a place where the minimum wage is at or above $15 an hour. More than twice the federal minimum, Marketplace's
2:09.4	Mitchell Hartman reports.
2:11.7	Next year's minimum wage hikes are the legacy of sustained political pressure by advocates
2:16.9	for low-wage workers,
2:18.5	says Sebastian Martinez Hickey at the Economic Policy Institute.
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