07/20/2017: On to the next

Segments From This Episode

• When a big carbon emitter is the main economic driver in town

  by Gigi Douban

  

  For local residents, the Miller power plant is the economic center of the city.

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• The Trump hotel: gold, glitz and lawsuits

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  Maryland and DC have filed a suit that says the president's hotel has an unfair advantage.

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• Will the GOP learn from the health care battle as it gears up for a tax fight?

  by Adam Allington

  In a bid to avoid the legislative fiasco that was the attempt at Obamacare repeal, the GOP has tried to take a more deliberate approach to its next big priority — tax reform. The White House said it has held “hundreds of listening sessions” on the topic, and Politico reports that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and […]

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• Workers are seeing wage gains, even in some of the lowest-paid jobs

  by Mitchell Hartman

  We haven’t seen much in wage gains out of recent jobs reports from the Labor Department. The most recent one, for June, showed average hourly wages, as reported by employers, up just 2.5 percent over the past year, not much better than inflation. But another measure of income from the Labor Department, based on a […]

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• The "Illuminati of cheese" is filling fast food chains with cheesy dishes

  by Kai Ryssdal and Emily Henderson

  “Got Milk?” is arguably the dairy industry’s best ad slogan ever. But how about “Got Cheese?” That do anything for you? Americans are eating record amounts of cheese — 35 pounds of it per person each year on average. But diary farmers still have plenty left over, and there’s a huge surplus of the base product, milk, […]

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