Tag: labor
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 31: Resignation-gate, part 2
Although recession fears and missed earnings expectations have led to job cuts in some industries, the Great Resignation is still going strong: as of the beginning of June 2022, Americans were still quitting their jobs at record rates, and data from the a global survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers found that up to 20% of…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 30 (Part 1): Resignation-gate
The Great Resignation is a socio-cultural phenomenon that is baffling researchers and reporters and causing no small degree of anxiety among employers. Odds are, you know someone who has taken part in this movement by moving on from their job recently, perhaps, you’ve made a transition yourself. As we explore in this episode, the…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 21: Stick To Sports
Today we’re giving you a peek behind the scenes with an episode about one of our favorite pre-show topics: college sports [note: we’re both dyed-in-the-wool Duke fans. What can we say? The idea of your college as “the mother of your soul” definitely holds for us when it comes to sports loyalties]. This…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 13: The Economics of Immigration
The human consequences of the current administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy have been inescapable during this summer’s news cycle. Each day seems to bring with it new stories of parents separated from children, inhumane conditions in detention centers, and the stripping away of previously installed protections for asylum seekers and early childhood arrivals in the United…