Segments From This Episode

• GDP grows at fastest rate since Reagan era, but there’s still pain

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Economists expect the U.S. to surpass the GDP we’d have seen if COVID-19 hadn’t happened. But many still wait for jobs to come back.

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• Why is child care so expensive in the United States?

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  It’s labor intensive, and caregiver wages are most of the cost. Still, workers, mostly women of color, make “near-poverty wages.”

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• Reparations fund will help Black women build houses — and wealth

  by Amy Scott

  

  A Baltimore church that worked against Black homeownership is now investing in it.

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• Housing is hot, and LA mortgage broker sees no sign of a slowdown

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban

  

  Vivian Gueler of Pacific Trust Group says demand for housing in Los Angeles is outpacing supply, thanks largely to low interest rates.

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• Could the federal minimum wage vary by the regional cost of living?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  A listener writes: “If you make the minimum wage $15/hour, it’s not enough in New York and it’s way too much in Peoria. Would it be possible to tie the minimum wage to the cost of living?”

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