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A crude awakening in Texas
Mar 8, 2019

A crude awakening in Texas

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Forecasters overshot the number of new jobs for February by about 160,000. What gives?  On International Women's Day, there's some bad but unsurprising news about the global gender pay gap and health disparities for women. Plus, the port town Corpus Christi, Texas is dealing with an influx of too much oil without ways to transport and store all of it.

Today's show is sponsored by the University of Florida Warrington College of Business and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.

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Not plain sailing for Texas oil exports

Mar 8, 2019
In Texas, energy companies are scrambling to find a home for the record amount of oil they’re producing.
In Texas, energy companies are scrambling to find a home for the record amount of oil they’re producing.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

Forecasters overshot the number of new jobs for February by about 160,000. What gives?  On International Women’s Day, there’s some bad but unsurprising news about the global gender pay gap and health disparities for women. Plus, the port town Corpus Christi, Texas is dealing with an influx of too much oil without ways to transport and store all of it.

Today’s show is sponsored by the University of Florida Warrington College of Business and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.

The team

Victoria Craig Host, BBC
Stephen Ryan Senior Producer, BBC
Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC
Daniel Shin Producer
Brian Allison Engineer
Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer
Erika Soderstrom Producer
Rose Conlon Producer
Alex Schroeder Producer