The real story behind the red-blue hiring divide
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Hiring data shows that Republican-leaning states have been consistently hiring faster than Democratic-leaning states, and it’s been that way since before the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ll unpack the trend and get into the relationship between hiring and job growth. Plus, an inclusive running club is making us smile. And, are we handing out five star reviews too freely?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Why are red states hiring so much faster than blue states?” from The Washington Post
- “Oklahoma Approves First Religious Charter School in the U.S.” from The New York Times
- “A $1.5 Trillion Backstop for Homebuyers Props Up Banks Instead” from Bloomberg
- “Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere surge, hit a new all-time high” from The Washington Post
- “Martinus Evans, of Slow AF Run Club, Wants to Make Running Everyone’s Sport” from The New York Times
- Customer Ratings Have Become Meaningless. Americans are handing out perfect Uber and Airbnb scores. from The Wall Street Journal
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| 1:14.3 | And I'm Amy Scott in for Kai Rizdal. Thank you for joining us everybody. It is Monday June 5th. |
| 1:21.2 | Today we are going to do the news fix and then let you in on what's making a smile. And I'm in |
| 1:27.2 | LA today. So I'm channeling Kai and using his studio. Nice. What's your news today, Amy? |
| 1:35.1 | Okay, well, I got a couple. I'll try to keep them both short. The first one I was interested in |
| 1:42.3 | is a story from Bloomberg Business Week I saw today. They did a big deep dive on the federal |
| 1:48.1 | home loan bank system, which I think most people probably hadn't heard of until the sort of |
| 1:53.9 | March banking madness maybe still haven't heard of, but these banks were created during the great |
| 2:00.1 | depression to provide private banks with funding to make mortgages. And that was the intent, but |
| 2:08.3 | you know, these days basically these banks have become a giant backstop for the financial system |
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