Segments From This Episode

• Extreme heat, urgent need for AC challenges infrastructure

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Nonprofit Climate Central estimates that home air conditioning use will increase almost 60% over the next 30 years.

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• The Fed walks a tightrope: Stimulate the economy without causing a housing bubble

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  The central bank’s been keeping interest rates low in part by buying up mortgage-backed securities. That has Fed officials keeping a wary eye on the housing market for signs of overheating.

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• Why the words of America’s first Black economist resonate today

  by Kimberly Adams and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “She was prescient in many ways,” says Nina Banks, editor of a new book on the speeches and writing of Sadie T. M. Alexander.

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• The expanded child tax credit could “cut poverty in half”

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Starting July 15, most parents will get monthly payments for half of the tax credit instead of a lump sum at tax time.

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• Today’s conversations about work relief sound like those of the New Deal era

  by Andie Corban

  

  Professors Jason Scott Smith and Jessamyn Schaller look back at the Works Progress Administration’s legacy.

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