Employers spent a lot on employee health insurance last year — benefit costs outpaced inflation by 4 to 5%. Plus, a zero-carbon port and incarcerated firefighters.
“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal speaks to Courtenay Brown at Axios and Kate Davidson at Bloomberg about economic uncertainty, the latest GDP headline numbers, inflation and more.
The transportation sector accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. One port is trying to eliminate emissions entirely within the coming decade.
“It wasn’t as smooth sailing as I had hoped, but it still turned out really well,” said Le-An Than, co-owner of Crane Games in Aurora and now Thorton, Colorado.