- Aug 9, 2021 8:00 pm
- 13:08
Noncompete agreements are widely used by American companies these days. Even minimum wage workers at retail stores and restaurants are being asked to sign these agreements. President Biden would like to rein in the practice. What effect might that have? Raymond Hogler is a labor policy expert and emeritus professor of management at Colorado State University. (Segment produced Sydney Jezik)
China
Congress, despite its bipartisan split, is united in believing that China poses a threat to American national security. In fact, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which would normally hold classified meetings about China, recently held an open hearing on how the communist country is harming the United States. Ryan Vogel is the director of the Center for National Security Studies at Utah Valley University. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Congress, despite its bipartisan split, is united in believing that China poses a threat to American national security. In fact, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which would normally hold classified meetings about China, recently held an open hearing on how the communist country is harming the United States. Ryan Vogel is the director of the Center for National Security Studies at Utah Valley University. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Heart Attacks
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. But soon we might be able to lower that number by using spider venom as medicine after a heart attack. Nathan Palpant, senior research fellow of molecular bioscience at the University of Queensland, is leading this research. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. But soon we might be able to lower that number by using spider venom as medicine after a heart attack. Nathan Palpant, senior research fellow of molecular bioscience at the University of Queensland, is leading this research. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)
Managed Retreat
A new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world is on track for increasingly catastrophic fires, droughts, floods, and storms. What can communities do to prepare for extreme weather like that? Disaster researcher A. R. Siders proposes “managed retreat” as a solution. She’s a professor of public policy at the University of Delaware. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)
A new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world is on track for increasingly catastrophic fires, droughts, floods, and storms. What can communities do to prepare for extreme weather like that? Disaster researcher A. R. Siders proposes “managed retreat” as a solution. She’s a professor of public policy at the University of Delaware. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)
Black History and Boys’ Stories
Langston, Lymon, and Clem: three Black boys on the edge of adolescence who meet in a Chicago middle school in the 1940s. These boys are fictional, but their stories are rooted in historical moments that shaped Black life in America. Each of them is at the center of a book in an acclaimed trilogy for middle-grade readers written by Lesa Cline-Ransome. First came “Finding Langston.” Then “Leaving Lymon.” And now the last book in the series—“Being Clem”—is out.
Langston, Lymon, and Clem: three Black boys on the edge of adolescence who meet in a Chicago middle school in the 1940s. These boys are fictional, but their stories are rooted in historical moments that shaped Black life in America. Each of them is at the center of a book in an acclaimed trilogy for middle-grade readers written by Lesa Cline-Ransome. First came “Finding Langston.” Then “Leaving Lymon.” And now the last book in the series—“Being Clem”—is out.
Opioid Epidemic
Drug overdose deaths jumped nearly 30% in the US last year—to the highest number ever recorded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Peter Canning has been a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut, for 25 years and recently published a new memoir called “Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic.” (Originally aired April 14th, 2021)
Drug overdose deaths jumped nearly 30% in the US last year—to the highest number ever recorded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Peter Canning has been a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut, for 25 years and recently published a new memoir called “Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic.” (Originally aired April 14th, 2021)
Noncompete Agreements
Noncompete agreements are widely used by American companies these days. Even minimum wage workers at retail stores and restaurants are being asked to sign these agreements. President Biden would like to rein in the practice. What effect might that have? Raymond Hogler is a labor policy expert and emeritus professor of management at Colorado State University. (Segment produced Sydney Jezik)
Noncompete agreements are widely used by American companies these days. Even minimum wage workers at retail stores and restaurants are being asked to sign these agreements. President Biden would like to rein in the practice. What effect might that have? Raymond Hogler is a labor policy expert and emeritus professor of management at Colorado State University. (Segment produced Sydney Jezik)