Segments From This Episode

• September’s real wages are expected to rise

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  And that would mean your paycheck’s purchasing power would be getting a boost relative to inflation.

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• Nobel winner advances understanding of women and the labor market

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has illuminated issues such as the gender gap in pay, child and elder care, and the shortfall in women economists.

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• These businesses made it through the hardest part of the pandemic. Then they closed.

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  The pandemic is still having a domino effect on small businesses. Here’s what happened to three of them.

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• Higher interest rates have mortgages and commercial real estate loans in the dumps

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  And yet banks are loaning out more money than a year ago.

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• The clean energy revolution needs green workers, fast

  by Emily Jones

  

  If there aren’t people ready to build, install, and maintain the solar panels and electric cars that money is paying for, billions in federal funding dollars could go to waste.

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• How an urban hiker in Kansas City turned her side hustle full-time

  by Sarah Leeson

  

  “After having my urban hikes for about a year, I realized that if I wanted my business to grow, that I would need to focus full time on it, and that was a scary leap,” said Lisa Peña, owner of Urban Hikes Kansas City.

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