Segments From This Episode

• One way Oakland is fighting racial inequality? By fixing potholes

  by Ben Bradford

  

  Every city must contend with potholes, but some of the streets in Oakland, California, look like they’ve survived the climactic fight in a superhero film. “Some of them [potholes] are big enough that, if it rains my little great-nephew can swim in them,” says Tracy Greene, a resident of East Oakland. In another neighborhood, Fruitvale, […]

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• Retail sales dip in April. Why are consumers holding back?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  It offsets a big surge in retail sales in March.

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• Tariffs are stifling the region with world’s largest BMW plant, official says

  by Liz Sanchez and Kai Ryssdal

  

  Spartanburg, South Carolina, had “white hot” growth before the taxes, councilman says.

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• How the CBO became “God” in Washington’s budget battles

  by Tracey Samuelson

  

  Credit the agency’s founding director, Alice Rivlin, who died this week.

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