Episode 12

The State of Working Vermont. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?

March 22, 2024: Okay, so the Public Assets Institute doesn't really give a thumbs up or down in it's annual State of Working Vermont report. Vermont's economy is a mix of both. PAI Executive Director Stephanie Yu walks us through this year's report. We discuss the labor market, wages, taxes, and income inequality.

Read the report here: https://publicassets.org/library/publications/reports/state-of-working-vermont-2023/

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.