The law that could bring Florida’s economy to a halt

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As the Title 42 immigration policy ends at the border, a new immigration law that aims to crackdown on employers who hire undocumented workers has been signed in Florida. We get into the economic implications of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new immigration policy. Then, we haven’t hit the debt-ceiling deadline … yet. But we’re already feeling the pain. Plus, a round of Half-Full/Half-Empty, full of appreciation for mothers.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “South Florida workers already feeling heat of immigration bill” from CBS

- “Here’s how Gov. DeSantis’ new immigration policy could impact Florida economy” from ClickOrlando

- “Italian pasta prices are soaring. Rome is in crisis talks with producers” from CNN

- “Consequences of the Debt-Ceiling Standoff Are Already Here” from Bloomberg

- “Debt limit debate, which puts the nation’s credit and trust on the line, endangers already fragile U.S. economic outlook” from NBC

- “You Can Finally Try Starbucks’ New Olive Oil Coffee in the US—But Why Would You?” from Bon Appétit

- “Elon Musk has found his replacement as CEO of Twitter” from The Verge

- “Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter” from The 19th

- “3 things you should know about the end of the Covid public health emergency” from Vox

- “Wendy’s Installing Drive-Thru AI Chatbot That Takes Your Order” from Futurism

- “Chocolate is a sweet tradition for Mother’s Day” from Marketplace

- “Customers are being asked to tip even at self check-out” from Insider

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1:02.2	Hey, everybody. I'm Kyle Rizzo. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
1:06.0	It is Friday today, the 12th day of May. We made it to Friday. Finally, it was, it was a
1:12.4	slog. I am Kimberly Adams. And thank you for joining us on this Friday, which is economics
1:17.0	on tap day, which is the day that we do our YouTube live stream, which is up and running.
1:22.3	Thanks for everybody who is joining us. And we're going to have drinks.
1:27.5	We're going to have news fixes. We're going to have games of half full, half empty.
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