Will the economy bounce back?

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Dara, Jane, and Matt on the road ahead for the worst labor market since the Great Depression. Resources: "As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal" by Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Washington Post "Get ready for a second wave of economic pain" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "The economy is in free fall. So why isn’t the stock market?" by Emily Stewart, Vox White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:49.7	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:53.7	I'm Matthew Iglesias here virtually with Jane Kostin and ProPublica's Dara Lind.
1:59.8	We wanted to get back on the pandemic beat today, although it was usual, non-pandemic
2:05.5	white paper to lighten the mood or whatever happens to your mood.
2:10.8	But it would be a good time to start thinking about the economic situation in the country.
2:16.6	We had our first tranche of unemployment data came out last week, said that in April,
2:24.2	the unemployment rate went up to nearly 15%, which is the worst since the Great Depression.
2:30.8	The BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who does this survey, they like appended a note,
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