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Viewsroom: Reparations math, the coming WFH battle

Viewsroom

Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery, Breakingviews columnists debate the financial question of whether the government, and some corporations, have a debt to repay. And Pete Sweeney dives deep into the post-pandemic future of working from home - or not.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:09.9

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0:11.6

Order delivery on the McDonald's app.

0:15.0

Serve from 11am, upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders.

0:17.9

Subjects availability, price and participation may vary.

0:19.9

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roiders'

0:25.4

news.

0:30.3

Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

0:34.8

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland, which I've returned to after a couple of weeks in the United States. Flight, by the way, wasn't bad, maybe 25 people on a 250-seat plane. Everyone was in masks. Might actually be the safest time to be on a plane. Come to think of it. Anyway, while in the States, the debate over America's original sin of slavery was front

0:54.9

and center and dominated the headlines, pretty much anywhere you look.

0:57.9

They still do.

0:59.1

We at Break and Views looked at it as we try to do through the lens of finance and business.

1:04.0

Now last Friday was Juneteenth, the celebration of the official end of slavery 155 years

1:09.0

ago.

1:10.0

On that day, my colleagues, Anna Shamansky and I wrote a couple

1:12.7

of columns on the matter of reparations. That's the question of whether the government owes a debt

1:17.1

to the descendants of enslaved people. Anna looked at the arguments and calculations that have

1:22.1

been mooted around this difficult issue on which a majority of black Americans agree, but not yet

1:26.5

all Americans, according to polls.

1:28.9

I also wrote a column arguing why I think corporate America might actually lead the charge

1:32.9

on settling this unhealed wound in the American psyche. Anne and I discuss these stories of

1:38.2

John Foley in this week's Views Room. After that, John hands the mic back to me to discuss a deep

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