Latest from Kelly Silvera

• Jul 4, 2023

  The cost of climate change: insurance edition

  

  Thanks to climate change, insurance costs are going up. Major providers are pulling out of high-risk markets, and remaining coverage options can cost an arm and a leg. Plus, how small businesses decide whether to raise their prices, as inflation slows but doesn’t stop.

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• Jul 4, 2023

  A social media face-off as Meta prepares to launch a rival to Twitter

  

  From the BBC World Service: Facebook’s owner Meta has announced it will launch Threads, a new social media app, on Thursday. Technology reporter Io Dodds told us what this means for Twitter. Also, the killing of a French-Algerian teenager in Paris has triggered days of rioting. The BBC’s Paul Moss reports on two funds that have been set up, one for the victim and the other for the policeman who shot him. And finally, the BBC’s Andrew Harding investigates who’s to blame as South Africa faces a winter of discontent over power shortages.

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• Jul 3, 2023

  Let’s talk about debt

  

  Some Americans used their stimulus checks to pay down all sorts of debt. Which might have been a forward-thinking plan, since federal student loan payments are set to restart this fall.

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• Jul 3, 2023

  Skin in the Game: Here’s your change!

  

  At mentoring program Gameheads, students draw on lived experience to create video games. Some are tackling the gentrification happening in their own neighborhoods. Plus, the latest on student loan repayments.

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• Jul 3, 2023

  Beijing beckons for the US Treasury Secretary

  

  From the BBC World Service: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week as the US and China try to patch up a broken relationship. BBC China Media Analyst Kerry Allen gives the lowdown on how her trip could be received. Plus, an environmental campaign group claims the Anglo-Dutch energy giant, Shell, continues to trade Russian gas, more than a year after promising to pull out of the country. And Warren Bull reports on the hot topic of a shortage of Sriracha sauce.

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• Jun 30, 2023

  New rules for religious accommodation at work

  

  Employers will now have to accommodate their employees’ religious observances, unless they can prove doing so imposes a substantial burden on their business operations. Plus, the price of a monarchy, and the hot topic at today’s EU meeting.

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• Jun 30, 2023

  With race-based affirmative action gone, what about legacy status?

  

  Colleges may respond to the overturning of race-based affirmative action by putting more emphasis on socio-economic status, or even de-emphasizing legacy status. Plus, a law protecting pregnant workers went into effect this week

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• Jun 30, 2023

  Crisis-hit Pakistan strikes $3 billion IMF bailout deal

  

  From the BBC World Service: After months of negotiating, the International Monetary Fund has reached a financing deal with Pakistan to avoid a default. The British are coming… for your airport stores; many of the shops you see in airports in the US are run by a British company, WHSmith, and they’re planning even more. A new airline, K9, is giving pets seats on private jets for routes including London to New York, New Jersey and Dubai. 

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• Jun 29, 2023

  The GDP gets a recalculation

  

  An updated estimate put first quarter GDP growth in the U.S. at the equivalent of 2% per year. We’ll discuss what that robust GDP means for future rate hikes. Plus, state UI agencies still have frustrating filing processes.

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• Jun 29, 2023

  Can big banks take economic heat right now?

  

  The results of this year’s big bank stress tests are in, and the outcomes are encouraging… according to some. Then, the economic case for LGBTQ equality. 

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