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China and the U.S. are growing (or not growing) apart
Apr 17, 2020

China and the U.S. are growing (or not growing) apart

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China’s first quarter GDP contracts for the first time since 1992. Plus: what it’s like to run an unemployment insurance program right now.

Segments From this episode

Prospect of U.S.-China "decoupling" grows amid shortages of medical goods

Apr 17, 2020
Shortages of medical goods change executives’ views of ties between giant trading partners
Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

A small Chinese business survives COVID-19 shutdown. Now what?

Apr 17, 2020
The Chinese economy virtually stopped for nearly two months. One clothier is barely hanging on while life slowly returns to normal.
Small shops shuttered in a main shopping area in Shanghai's Fengxian suburbs.
Charles Zhang/Marketplace

Supply chains are being pulled to the limit

Apr 17, 2020
Many companies are taking a hard look at their tattered supply chains.
Cranes stand idle at the Port of Los Angeles — the nation's busiest container port — as supply chains shift during COVID-19.
Mario Tama/Getty Images

What it's like to run a state unemployment office right now

Apr 17, 2020
"Nothing has been as challenging, as nerve-wracking, as stressful as this," said Ed Serna, Executive Director of the Texas Workforce Commission.
Workers at a pandemic flu service call center in London in 2009.
Richard Pohle/Getty Images

Music from the episode

Hands of Time Kraak & Smaak, Alxndr London
Night Falls Booka Shade
Passin' Me By The Pharcyde

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer
Maria Hollenhorst Producer II
Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II