Were COVID relief funds fairly distributed to tribal governments?
Also on the show today: The Federal Reserve overhauls investment rules for policymakers, rental properties move into the hands of private equity firms and how U.S. energy storage efforts are faring.
Rachel Siegel, business reporter at the Washington Post, joins Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal to chat about the Fed’s new rules banning top policymakers from owning and trading individual stocks and bonds.
Carbon offsets can be tough to get right
by Sabri Ben-Achour
Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
If you can’t pollute less, pay someone else to pollute less for you. Carbon offsets sound simple but are complicated in practice.
In the transition to renewables, energy storage is a hot topic
by Andy Uhler
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, how can we store power to use when they aren’t?
Were tribal government COVID relief funds fairly distributed?
by Savannah Peters
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
The American Rescue Plan earmarked $20 billion for tribal governments. But the allocation formula favored a handful of tribes.
It's a tight, tight, tight, tight labor market
Elizabeth Crofoot, senior economist at the Conference Board, and Erica Groshen, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, chat about a labor market that is tightening and in flux.
Pandemic puts more rental properties in private equity hands
by Caroline Champlin
Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Investment firms might be able to pay more for renovations, but critics say they accelerate evictions.
Is racist housing policy the real villain in “Candyman”?
by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham
Scott Olson via Getty Images
Brentin Mock of Bloomberg CityLab says Candyman represents what bad, racist housing policy created and what gentrification tries to erase.
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