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Radio Free Acton: The fight for $15, stock market boom and Oxfam’s 2018 inequality report
Radio Free Acton: The fight for $15, stock market boom and Oxfam’s 2018 inequality report
May 1, 2025 6:23 PM

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Caroline Roberts talks to Joe Carter, Senior Editor at Acton, about minimum wage and the debate surrounding the “Fight for $15.” Then on the Econ Quiz segment, Dave Hebert, Professor of Economics at Aquinas College, speaks with John Couretas, Executive Editor and Director of Communications at Acton, about the stock market boom (segment was recorded before the Jan. 30 dip). After that, Caroline talks to Rev. Ben Johnson, Senior Editor at Acton, about Oxfam’s 2018 report on e inequality.

Check out these additional resources on this week’s podcast topics:

Read “11 Things you should know about minimum wage” by Joe Carter

Read “The 5 biggest problems with Oxfam’s 2018 e inequality report” by Rev. Ben Johnson

Register here to hearMartha Cruz-Zuniga, Ph.D. onBetter Measurement, Better es: Evaluating the Impact of a Charitable Gift

Do you have questions for the Radio Free Acton team that you would like answered in future podcast segments? Leave a message at 888-705-4180 or email [email protected].

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