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Marketplace All-in-One

To be political or not to be political?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

That is the question facing many companies, especially as we lead up to the contentious 2024 election. Today, we’ll hear how about some companies responded — from opting to ban political talk in the workplace and ones that emailed customers with telling them how to vote — as well as their thorny results. First, we’ll learn what we can glean from key economic speeches from former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

0:03.4

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

0:09.6

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:14.4

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

0:18.6

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

0:22.6

This could be the warmest year on record.

0:24.6

Climate change is here.

0:25.7

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

0:29.5

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

0:35.9

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

0:44.7

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

0:47.5

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

0:51.0

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:56.6

The complex choice for companies on being political or apolitical.

1:01.6

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, the Democratic

1:04.8

candidate for president Kamala Harris is set to speak in Pittsburgh today for

1:09.2

what her campaign is billing as a major economic speech.

1:13.0

The Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed the economy yesterday.

1:17.0

Marketplace is Nancy Marshall Genser joins us.

1:19.0

Now, Nancy, let's start with Vice President Harris.

1:22.0

She's been pressured to come up with more details on her economic

1:25.5

plans. What might we hear today?

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