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The first episode of Marketplace’s federal spending series, “Breaking Ground,” will air Wednesday, January 24, looking at the history of the New Deal and its impact today.
The American economy is having a moment: the most significant influx of government investment in decades. Historically, investments of this magnitude — think the New Deal and the War on Poverty — reimagined and reshaped the way Americans interacted with this economy and the federal government. Is this one of those inflection points?
Congress and the Biden Administration have authorized more than a trillion dollars of spending with the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS Act — and the money is starting to go out in complicated, often invisible ways.
Beginning mid-January, Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal will follow this money into neighborhoods, towns, cities, and companies to explore whether this investment will change the way we live, work, and interact with each other — revealing the complex, slow nature of this spending, the relationships between government and companies, and the uncertainty over how these projects will ultimately pan out.
The series, which will consist of six to eight parts depending on where our reporting leads us, is anticipated to run through the first half of the calendar year and will include field reporting and conversations within communities from across the country.
The series is currently slated to include the history of the New Deal and its impact today; an infrastructure project in east Las Vegas; the support for and impact of sustainable aviation fuel; IRA spending in a Tribal community in Minnesota; a planned TSMC chip plant in Phoenix; the lobbying industrial complex; and more. Since reporting is still in progress, all topics are subject to change.
Marketplace Morning Report
Now that the big banks have reported quarterly results, we’re about to get a wave of earnings reports from smaller, regional banks. Those banks’ balance sheets were thrust into the spotlight last August when Moody’s downgraded several of their credit ratings. Marketplace Morning Report looks at whether regional banks are still struggling, and what ongoing problems they still face.
Marketplace Tech
Monday Jan 22: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Joel Khalili at Wired about bitcoin ETFs and how “bitcoin purists” feel about them.
Tuesday Jan 23: Lily speaks with David Kroodsma, director of research and innovation at Global Fishing Watch, about their recent research into AI use in mapping human activity across the oceans.
On Point
- Monday, Jan 22: Polls show Donald Trump dominating the race for the Republican presidential nomination. What is it that Republican Party elites don’t understand about Trump’s most passionate Republican voters and what that means for the Republican Party.
- Wednesday, Jan 24: Over the past 25 years forty million Americans have stopped attending church. Jim Davis, a pastor at an evangelical church in Orlando, and Michael Graham, a writer with the Gospel Coalition, tell us that the problem isn’t that churches are asking too much of their congregants, it’s that they’re not asking enough. Davis and Graham are the authors of The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
- Friday, Jan 26: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average American is shorter than they were just a couple of decades ago. And in global rankings we’re sliding down the height charts. We explore what’s causing that, and why it might not necessarily be a bad thing.
The Splendid Table
January 26 – New episode
We’re all about soups and stews this week. We’re talking Hot Pot with Jing Gao, author of The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp, Colombia’s Sancocho with Mariana Velásquez, author of Colombiana: A Rediscovery of Recipes and Rituals from the Soul of Colombia.
Classical
Performance Today
- Jan 22: Jon Kimura Parker performs Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in E minor with an all-star group at the Geneva Music Festival in Geneva, NY
- Jan 23: Eunice Kim and Xavier Foley perform Foley’s composition “For Justice and Peace” with the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra in Williamsburg, VA
- Jan 24: James Ehnes, Paul Watkins and Alessio Bax perform Johannes Brahms’ Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in C minor at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA
- Jan 25: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephan Deneve, performs the John Adams composition “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” at Powell Hall in St. Louis, MO
- Jan 26: A world premiere performance by the orchestra A Far Cry from the Rockport Chamber Music Festival , CA
Classical 24
Saturday, Jan. 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
We will feature music for the day in each host’s shift:
- 2 am hour CT: Sandor Kuti – Serenade No. 3
- 6 am hour CT: Pavel Haas – Wind Quintet
- 12 pm hour CT: Viktor Ullman – Concerto for Orchestra
- 3 pm hour CT: Richard Danielpour – Kaddish
- 7 pm hour CT: Marcel Tyberg – Symphony No. 3
- 8 pm hour CT: Hans Krasa – Overture for Small Orchestra
- 10 pm hour CT: Gideon Klein – Partita for Strings
New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT
- Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio with Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT
- Is it real or in your mind? Explore the blurred lines between imagination and reality with Paul Matthusen’s “of memory and minutae,” Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Fairytale Poem,” Nico Muhly’s “Seeing is Believing,” and more.
Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT
- Jan 25: Violist Tabea Zimmermann tackles one of the 20th century’s most famous works for the instrument: William Walton’s Viola Concerto, in a concert from Berlin last December.
- Jan 27: Celebrate Mozart’s birthday with violinist Alina Ibragimova and the Basel Chamber Orchestra playing the ‘Turkish’ Violin Concerto No. 5, from a November concert at Wigmore Hall in London.
Rhapsody in Black
Thurs 9pm CT & Sun 4pm CT
- Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on Ahmed Alabaca, a Black Composer, Arranger, Conductor and Song-Writer/Pianist.
Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT
- It is all about Listener Requests on this upcoming episode of Saturday Cinema.
Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT
- A Mozart Birthday Bash: celebrate Mozart with some of his lesser-known works, alongside composers who were inspired by him, like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Arvo Part, and more.
APM Presents special of the week
Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
Air Window: January 19 – April 30, 2024
Climate change can feel apocalyptic and unsolvable. Yet, communities across the U.S. are finding ways to adapt and build resilience to its impacts. Higher Ground tells the stories of people engaging in community science to take control and find understanding in changes to their environment. Empowered with information, these communities are able to keep cool heads in the face of global warming. Hope and progress in the eye of the storm.
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