Sep 21, 2020

What we know (and what we don’t) about the TikTok deal

A TikTok office in Culver City, California. Both Oracle and Walmart are interested in data. Mario Tama/Getty Images

What Oracle and Walmart (?) gets out of the deal. Plus: wildfires, meat prices and COVID-19's impacts along racial lines in Chicago.

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TikTok

What Oracle and Walmart see in TikTok

by Marielle Segarra

Sep 21, 2020

It's about data.

A TikTok office in Culver City, California. Both Oracle and Walmart are interested in data.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

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COVID & Unemployment

California's unemployment system has serious issues. It's not alone.

by Mitchell Hartman

Sep 21, 2020

Antiquated software and a glitchy ID-verification system are among the issues that prompted the state to stop accepting new applications for two weeks.

A woman enters the Employment Development Department building in Los Angeles. The state is putting a pause on processing new unemployment applications for two weeks.

Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

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In California, big business is preventing "good fire"

by Molly Wood and Bennett Purser

Sep 21, 2020

With the largest wildfires in history ablaze, advocates say its time to fight fire with fire.

A firefighter walks over burning embers from the Bobcat Fire in Southern California.

Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

Meat prices are down, with surpluses lingering

by Erika Beras

Sep 21, 2020

Production levels are back to normal, but there's more meat than the industry can push through the supply chain.

A man shops in the meat section of a Washington, D.C., grocery store in April. Meat supply and demand has been up and down during the pandemic.

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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COVID-19

In Chicago, COVID-19 takes a toll in Black and Latinx neighborhoods

by Natalie Moore

Sep 21, 2020

Family members of one Black 32-year-old woman who died say they are concerned about the lack of communication from the hospital before her death.

Health care workers transfer a patient to a different unit at a hospital. The pandemic is disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx patients.

Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

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Music from the episode

Waves Pablo Allah

Power - Instrumental Nicholas Britell

Flight to the Jungle (Take Off) Monster Rally

Mad (feat. Lil Wayne) Solange, Lil Wayne

Sleep The Dandy Warhols

Smoke & Mirrors TOKiMONSTA

Som transparents El Petit De Cal Eril

Notion Tash Sultana

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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