EP 489 Americans on the Move in the Wake of the Pandemic

EP 489 Americans on the Move in the Wake of the Pandemic

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/steven-malanga There are short and long term trends as it relates to migration across America.  For years, the south and the southwest have been gaining population while the Midwest and Northeast have been stagnant or losing ground.  And even in places like New York City, some tragic event or spate of bad governance may drive …

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EP 488 Don’t Know Much About History.

EP 488 Don’t Know Much About History.

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/topics?f%5B0%5D=type%3A2363 It’s hard to consider the place we’re in as a country and not wonder if something is lacking in the way we teach civics and United States history.  ( I must have missed the chapter about trying to undo fair and free election results by storming the Capitol.) Waving the flag and spouting platitudes …

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EP 487 Cultural Agility Required in the 21st Century

EP 487 Cultural Agility Required in the 21st Century

https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Agility-Building-Successful-Professionals/dp/1118275071  In the Zoom era, businesses are investing millions into global collaboration technology.  Yet the slickness of Big Tech stands to mask-and perhaps exacerbate the real issue: doing business across borders has less to do with technology and everything to do with being culturally agile.  Instinctively we sense this.  How do you react when put …

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EP 486 American Men Having a Hard Time Making Friends

EP 486 American Men Having a Hard Time Making Friends

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/american-men-suffer-a-friendship-recession/ It’s not just as a result of the pandemic that men are having a difficult time engaging with other guys in a bond of friendship.  This trend has been going on for a while and is likely exacerbated by the fact that many friendships are formed in the workplace, which is now undergoing great …

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EP 485 Do You Have What It Takes to Build a Startup?

EP 485 Do You Have What It Takes to Build a Startup?

https://www.foundersspace.com/surviving-a-startup/ A great idea is one thing.  Operationalizing that idea is another.  Haven’t we all had the one big notion that we thought would be a million dollar opportunity?  As you’ll hear in this podcast, I shared mine with our guest.  Yet, like most of us, I never went the extra mile to try to …

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EP 484 Police Reform On the Horizon

EP 484 Police Reform On the Horizon

https://www.policingproject.org/team/ Defund the police?  Provide less immunity for their bad acts?  Create a national standard for their training and ways to de-escalate a situation?  Augment the term public safety to include social workers and mental health specialists?  Depending upon who you talk to, all of these matters are part of the concept of ‘police reform’.  …

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EP 483 Going Back Down on the Farm With Dan Glickman

EP 483 Going Back Down on the Farm With Dan Glickman

https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3213-8.html Dan Glickman has had a very interesting life.  Following his years as a Congressman from Kansas, he became Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture and later the president of the Motion Picture industry, replacing the legendary Jack Valenti.  In his new book, “Laughing At Myself: My Education in Congress, On the Farm and the Movies’, …

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EP 482 New Federal Tax Credit May Be a Game Changer in Reducing Child Poverty

EP 482 New Federal Tax Credit May Be a Game Changer in Reducing Child Poverty

https://veronicagoodman.com/ The enhanced Child Tax Credit(CTC) was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the American Rescue Plan.  While temporary to start, if successful, it may well be remembered as the most important  part of that legislation.  Some social scientists are comparing its potential impacts for children and middle and lower income …

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EP 481 Water: Too Many Straws and Not Enough Supply

EP 481 Water: Too Many Straws and Not Enough Supply

https://robertglennon.net/books/ Our guest likes to use the straws metaphor to get across the point that all the users of the world’s most precious resource must accept that given population growth and climate change, one of the key solutions to a growing water crisis is to recognize that if your straw stays in the glass, some …

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