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These Workers Got Side Hustles for the Fertility Benefits

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for Aug. 21. More employers are offering fertility benefits to lower-paid, hourly and even part-time workers. Economics reporter Harriet Torry explains how that is influencing where people decide to work. Plus, India has a shot at being the first nation to land a spacecraft on the south pole of the moon. Reporter Micah Maidenberg has more. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know your favorite superheroes now.

0:03.4

So Iron Man, Captain America Thor, Hulk.

0:06.3

But Marvel's past, the dominating the box office,

0:08.9

wasn't an easy one.

0:10.1

Oh, it was a real gut punch.

0:12.0

We were a nothing company.

0:13.2

He developed a fire in his belly of hatred.

0:18.0

From the journal, a new four-part series,

0:20.6

with great power, the rise of superhero cinema.

0:24.5

Find it in the journal Feed on Spotify,

0:26.4

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

I don't know.

0:34.6

Nearly two weeks after the devastating wildfire on Maui,

0:38.1

850 people are still missing.

0:40.9

Plus, some Americans are taking on jobs

0:43.5

for the fertility benefits.

0:45.0

One of the people that I spoke to for the story,

0:47.0

she has worked at Starbucks and at Amazon

0:49.6

and at Tract to supply a company over the years

0:51.6

because they offered fertility benefits.

0:53.5

And for her, this was really the only hope

0:55.7

that she had to get treatment to try and have a baby.

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