Thursday's podcasts stories
Increasing drug prices
Indocin, an anti-inflammatory rectal suppository that treats arthritis, once cost $198 for a box of 30 in 2008. Today that same box now costs more than $10,000, 52 times higher over the span of 10 years. How does this happen?
Axios Re:Cap talks with Axios’ health care business reporter Bob Herman skyrocketing drug prices and why it matters.
A new position of power for American workers
Across the country, workers are angry — demanding better pay and conditions. Since last week, some 10,000 John Deere workers have been on strike in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia after rejecting a pay raise that didn’t go above 6%. It’s the largest strike of the pandemic - but not the only one.
- Plus, Netflix workers stand up for the trans community.
- And, Biden’s plans for vaccinating kids against covid.
Guests: Axios' Courtenay Brown, Ina Fried and Marisa Fernandez.
Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Alex Sugiura, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Michael Hanf, and David Toledo. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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Latino home ownership is on the rise
Almost 50% of Latinos in the U.S. owned a home in 2020, according to a report from the Hispanic Wealth Project, a group monitoring U.S. Hispanic wealth creation.
But Latinos are still 2.3 times more likely to be in forbearance and 1.5 times more likely to be delinquent on payments than white borrowers.
Axios Re:Cap talks with Axios’ race and justice reporter Russell Contreras on the uptick in Latino homeownership and the financial troubles they are also experiencing.
The new information age
America’s economic edge in tech used to be because of hardware, like computers, and software, or programming — think companies like Facebook or Google. But now we’re at a tipping point in the shift to an information economy that focuses on creators, content and data.
- Plus, Halloween is roaring back in 2021.
- And, how COVID has affected organized sports for kids.
Guests: Axios' Sara Fischer, Jennifer Kingson and Tyler Buchanan.
Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Alex Sugiura, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Michael Hanf, and David Toledo. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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