The rise of pharmacy deserts
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Across the country, pharmacies big and small are closing. The closures have disproportionately affected rural and low-income communities, leaving residents with limited access to prescription drugs and creating so-called “pharmacy deserts.” We’ll discuss a New York Times investigation about the middlemen driving pharmacies out of business. Plus, should the American Dream be a townhouse? And, introducing the real “househusbands” of Wall Street.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Housing costs are rising everywhere — but especially in swing states” from The Washington Post
- “The new American Dream should be a townhouse” from The Washington Post
- “The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business” from The New York Times
- “The real reason Walgreens and other pharmacies are failing” from MSNBC
- “Behind Many Powerful Women on Wall Street: A Doting ‘Househusband’” from The Wall Street Journal
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make |
| 0:10.0 | today make sense. And I'm Amy Scott in for Kyra's doll. |
| 0:14.1 | Thanks for joining us everybody. |
| 0:15.4 | It is Monday, October 21st. |
| 0:18.7 | Today we're gonna get to some news and then some smiles. |
| 0:21.5 | We will start with the news, Amy you got all right let's see so as |
| 0:26.8 | you know housing affordability is a big issue in this election so I noticed this |
| 0:31.3 | story in the Washington Post today that's pretty interesting |
| 0:35.1 | Where the reporters did an analysis showing that |
| 0:39.4 | Affordability is especially a problem in swing states. |
| 0:43.7 | Nationally, home prices have grown by almost half, |
| 0:46.4 | 48% since 2019. |
| 0:49.6 | But in swing states, voters are far more likely |
| 0:52.2 | to live in areas where housing |
| 0:53.8 | costs have risen faster than the national average. This is especially true in |
| 0:58.1 | Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina where more than 80% of voters live in counties where housing costs have |
| 1:04.7 | risen faster than average and these are of course some of the same states that have |
| 1:09.8 | seen a lot of influx of newcomers since the pandemic pushing up the cost of housing so Sunbelt |
| 1:16.2 | States. |
| 1:18.2 | The post story found that swing states also have more economic challenges generally than the national |
| 1:23.7 | average including smaller wage increases lower labor force participation |
| 1:28.8 | lower economic output which you, just speaks to how just generally Americans are feeling about the |
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