Voting in the US

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Americans are preparing to vote in their midterm elections. The rising cost of living, abortion, immigration, crime and gun rights are all issues that may affect decisions at the ballot box. We bring together two women from Massachusetts: Christine, a self-employed dog walker and Sheena, a single mother of four children aged three, five, seven and 13, who are struggling to afford essentials. In several states, the right to abortion will be on the ballot. We hear from two centres running clinics for women. We also get advice on how to ‘disagree well’ from couples where the partners have different political opinions.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC Earth's Conversations
0:05.8	on Voting in the US.
0:09.4	Across the country, money will be on the mind of many Americans as they vote in a few days.
0:16.2	In a moment, two women will share how rising prices are affecting them.
0:21.0	We will also hear, very handily, how to stay happily married if you happen to have opposing
0:27.8	political views.
0:28.8	Do you remember the big argument when you woke me up at like 2am to ask me if I really thought
0:34.4	that healthcare was a human right?
0:36.7	No, but it sounds like something I do.
0:43.1	Can you imagine that two in the morning to be woken just to speak about politics more
0:49.3	from them later?
0:51.3	As I was saying, one of the biggest concerns in the US right now, as in many countries,
0:55.4	is the cost of living.
0:57.5	Americans are experiencing a 40 year high in inflation, the rate that prices go up.
1:02.8	And this week, there was another rise in interest rates to try to slow down rising costs.
1:08.6	We brought together two women from the eastern state of Massachusetts.
1:12.4	Christine is a self-employed dog walker, and she knows a single mother of four children
1:17.0	aged 3, 5, 7, and 13.
1:20.4	At this point, everything's kind of like a struggle.
1:23.0	My grocery bill has pretty much doubled in the last six months or so.
1:27.3	Household necessities, things like toilet paper are going up greatly.
1:32.2	Christmas is actually kind of like a struggle that I'm kind of preparing for because I've
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