Episode 49

Vermont needs a new normal and goodbye 2022!

December 30, 2022 (prerecorded 12/23): We celebrate our last show of 2022 with a breakdown of the annual State of Working Vermont report. The theme of this year's report: 'Vermont needs a new normal.' Stephanie Yu of the Public Assets Institute joins the show. 

To read the State of Working Vermont 2022 report: https://publicassets.org/library/publications/reports/state-of-working-vermont-2022/

Here is the supplemental jobs and wages report Stephanie referenced: https://publicassets.org/library/publications/monthly-jobs-report/blame-wages-not-inflation-if-vermont-is-unaffordable/

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

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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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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.