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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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0:00.0 | NPR. |
0:02.0 | In January, Puerto R |
0:14.0 | Bored Rican musician Bad Bunny released a new album, and this album was distinctly Puerto Rican. |
0:23.8 | It sampled salsa and old-school rhythms from the territory. |
0:28.8 | It was also full of messages ruying what was being lost on the island, in large part due to economic forces. |
0:35.8 | They want to keep me the and my kids to leave. |
0:57.7 | What? too. They want my neighborhood and your kids to leave. What Bad Bunny is beating his drum about is part of a long history of political leaders |
1:03.8 | trying to turn Puerto Rico into a tax haven. This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
1:10.1 | I'm Darren Woods. And I'm Waylon Wong. Many countries |
1:13.5 | try to boost their economies by attracting wealthy people. President Trump recently announced |
1:18.7 | a gold card visa for people willing to pony up $5 million. On today's show, we're looking at |
1:25.3 | how Puerto Rico tried to escape a grinding recession through tax breaks to newcomers. |
1:30.8 | And what Puerto Rico's experience can tell us about whether this approach works. |
1:35.6 | Are we overlooking the challenges facing men without college degrees? |
1:39.8 | Richard Reeves thinks so. |
1:41.4 | There are a lot of guys out there who are actually poorer than their dads. |
1:44.8 | Reeves heads the American Institute for Boys and Men. |
1:47.7 | Have we updated our view about the role of men as quickly as we've changed the economy around them? |
1:52.3 | And the answer is no. |
1:53.5 | That's from a recent Planet Money bonus episode. |
1:56.1 | A look at the economic and cultural struggles of working class men. |
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