Optimism? In This Economy?!

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A group of ten current and formerly incarcerated people in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to allege inhumane conditions in the state’s prison system, and called it a “modern day form of slavery.” The lawsuit claims about 575 private companies and more than 100 public agencies have benefitted from incarcerated labor in Alabama in the past five years, and those benefits have amounted to an estimated $450 million annually.

The latest Consumer Price Index showed that prices rose 3.1% in the year through November. By the numbers, economists say that data is supposed to be good news for the economy, but to Americans, it doesn’t exactly feel that way. And with just over a month from the first primary election of the 2024 season, we wanted to know what this economic news means for President Biden and Republicans who want to unseat him. To answer that question and more, we’re joined by Lindsay Owens, executive director of progressive economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative.

And in headlines: The United Nations General Assembly voted to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, the New York Court of Appeals ordered the state to draw a new congressional map ahead of the 2024 elections, and we discuss whether or not to bring back intermissions during longer movies.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, December 13th.
0:02.8	I'm Trayvon Anderson.
0:04.1	And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What A Day,
0:06.6	the pod that hopes we were not on Google's most Googled list
0:10.4	for its 25th anniversary.
0:12.1	Yes, that's because you don't need Google to know who we are.
0:15.0	But apparently people need Google to tell them who Taylor Swift and Homer Simpson are.
0:20.0	They were some of the most searched terms over the last 25 years.
0:24.0	And Spongebob SquarePants, which to me it feels pretty self-explanatory.
0:28.0	On today's show, the latest stats show that inflation continues to cool, but we will talk
0:36.2	about why that's still not great news for President Biden.
0:39.5	Plus, Harvard's president will keep her job amid calls that she be removed.
0:44.0	But first, a group of 10 current and formerly incarcerated people in Alabama
0:47.6	filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging
0:50.3	in the state's prisons.
0:52.6	The lawsuit calls Alabama's prison system a, quote,
0:55.1	modern day form of slavery.
0:57.3	They say it requires them to work for little or no wages,
1:00.0	which, according to the New York Times,
1:01.4	quote, effectively resurrects Alabama's notorious practice
1:04.2	of convict leasing.
1:05.8	That was a common labor practice during reconstruction
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