On today’s show: vaccination passports. Plus, Asian Americans are experiencing especially high levels of long-term unemployment.
And many of their bosses are eager for them them to travel again, too.
In theory, they make travel safer for all. In practice, they may deepen inequities around who gets to be vaccinated and mobile.
“That money is essentially spoken for,” Susana Mendoza says of the $7.5 billion coming to the state from the American Rescue Plan.
In the fourth quarter of 2020, nearly half of Asian Americans who were unemployed had been out of work for more than six months.
Delaware Steel President Lisa Goldenberg talks soaring steel prices and the possibility of a Biden infrastructure bill.
Some states got an unexpected bump from tobacco taxes. The number of people smoking has declined steadily, except in 2020.