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“The Birth of the Minimum Wage”

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“The Birth of the Minimum Wage”

To my mind, one of the best podcasts is NPR’s Planet Money podcast.  Recently, the Planet Money team has been producing some great shows. The most recent episode discusses the creation of the minimum wage and seems to be the first in a series about the minimum wage.  

Here is a description of the show: 

For most of U.S. history, there was no minimum wage. A few times, politicians passed laws tiptoeing toward a minimum. But the Supreme Court struck those laws down.

On today’s show: how the U.S. finally got a minimum wage. It’s a story of exploding bakeries, a blue eagle, and a guy who may or may not have been drunk.

Remembering MLK

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If you have not heard Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech in full, make today the day you do so. It is a truly inspiring speech, steeped in American history and tradition. As a nerdy confession, there was a time that I would listen to the “I Have A Dream” speech before each of my law school exams.

The Credit Card Black Market

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The Credit Card Black Market

Interested in where you can purchase your credit card number? Want to know how/where your credit card number can be attained? This Planet Money podcast discusses the stole credit card black market. Here is a description of the podcast: 

If you know the right people — and if you can get other criminals to vouch for you — you can go online and buy huge bundles of stolen credit cards.

As it turns out, Planet Money knows the right people.

On today’s show, we sit in with Keith Mularski of the FBI. Mularski got so deep into this world that he wound up running a major criminal website.

He takes us to a giant online mall for stolen credit cards, where vendors offer discounts for repeat customers and banners advertise hacking and phishing tutorials.

The Epitome of Patriotism: An Iranian Americans Story

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The Epitome of Patriotism: An Iranian Americans Story

I listen to a lot of podcast.  Few are as moving as the story told on The Moth Radio Hour about a young Iranian American who travels back to her homeland during the 2009 Iranian elections.  Her story demonstrate how truly lucky we are to be American.  Although all of the stories on this edition of The Moth Radio Hour were superb, the Iranian American story is segment three starting at around 49:40.