The Economic Fallout of COVID-19

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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What’s worse than a pandemic? The economic consequences on the poorest Americans. Indi Dutta-Gupta of the Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality talks with Adam this week about how the pandemic has affected those already struggling with poverty, and how things look moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think
0:13.0	I don't know what to say
0:16.0	Yeah, that's all right
0:18.0	Yeah, that's all right
0:21.0	Yeah, that's okay
0:25.0	I don't know anything.
0:29.0	Hello everyone, welcome to factually.
0:30.0	My name's Adam Conover, and let's keep talking about the pandemic.
0:34.0	But how about this instead of talking about the medical side like we did just the other week
0:38.7	with Derek Lowe when he gave us all the insight into the vaccine.
0:41.9	Check out that episode if you missed it.
0:43.8	It'll give you the low down.
0:45.2	Let's talk about the economic fallout.
0:48.7	Now see the story of the pandemic, according to commercials or the news or the smarter living section of the New York Times all that sort of media
0:56.8	is that the pandemic has quote changed how we work right no shit we used to work in places, you know, workplaces, offices, but now so many of us
1:07.2	are working at home over Zoom, right? That's the story. And we have the articles about the
1:11.8	challenges, oh do you put on a, do you wear a button up? And we have see articles about the challenges.
1:12.6	Oh, do you put on a, do you wear a button up shirt?
1:15.3	Oh, what's the dress code?
1:16.7	How do you take care of your kids?
1:18.8	And you know, these are real challenges.
1:20.3	I can say as a Zoom work veteran, I say it sucks I've been running a writer's
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