Segments From This Episode

• Exxon is on the offensive

  by Nova Safo

  Tensions between Exxon-Mobil and some of its shareholders may well boil over this morning when the company holds its annual shareholder meeting. Some of Exxon’s activist shareholders have been pushing the oil giant to do things like adopt a greenhouse gas reduction plan, and Exxon is suing them for basically harassing the company.

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• Child care costs are a big part of why Americans feel inflation still stings

  by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder

  

  Prices have climbed persistently, yet the service is persistently scarce. That, in turn, hurts kids and undermines the labor force.

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