01/27/2017: One week into Donald Trump’s economy

Segments From This Episode

• Bills in two states push to eliminate tenure

  by Jed Kim

  

  Missouri's would stop tenure for new hires starting next year. Iowa's would revoke tenure for all professors.

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• Weekly Wrap: A week of uncertainty

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal talks with Nela Richardson of Redfin and Sudeep Reddy of Politico for the Weekly Wrap.

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• Republican-led Michigan grapples with uncertainty about Medicaid expansion

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  The state's successful program is in doubt, along with the Affordable Care Act.

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• Why governments have a hard time changing GDP

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Economist Marc Levinson says governments can't do much to increase productivity, despite what you've heard.

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• FERC loses a member, throwing a wrench into pipeline approvals

  by Scott Tong

  The agency that OKs pipelines will be stalled on a number of key builds for the foreseeable future.

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• Unpacking America’s complex trade with Mexico

  The U.S.-Mexico trade relationship gets talked about by the president as if we’re being scammed. He implies that because the United States has a trade deficit with its southern neighbor, we’re just pouring money over the border. But most economists say the trade deficit with Mexico is not a problem, and, in fact, that it’s […]

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