Slate Money: Microchips and Child Care

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss a stipulation in the CHIPS Act that requires companies who take federal funding from the CHIPS Act to provide child care options for their employees. They also discuss the political controversy over ESG investing, and the confusion over a new partnership that will allow Amazon employees to pay for their mortgage with Amazon stock. In the Plus segment: restaurant ordering etiquette. Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership.
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to the Child Care and the Chipsack episode of Slate Money,
0:26.4	your guide to the business and finance and this week, Politics News of the Week.
0:31.7	I'm Felix Simon of Axios.
0:33.2	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:35.8	Hello, hello.
0:37.0	And Elizabeth Spires.
0:38.8	Hi.
0:39.6	We have a weirdly and unusually political episode this week, even unto the numbers round where
0:46.8	we talk about AOC's met ball shenanigans.
0:52.2	We are going to talk about the Chips Act and what it is mandating in terms of
0:56.7	childcare. We are going to talk about the veto that President Biden is using to override a bill
1:07.0	that was passed, which was in opposition to a department labor law about retirement,
1:11.9	something, something, something, you will understand it all by the time the segment is over.
1:17.3	We are going to talk about better.com and Amazon and the idea of using stock to make a down payment
1:24.4	on a house. And we have a sleepate Plus on ordering the same meal in restaurants.
1:31.1	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:36.3	My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:40.6	Some people call us American royalty.
1:43.1	We were liars.
1:44.0	A new series on Prime Video.
1:46.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
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