Mitchell Hartman

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1,173 appearances 40 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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Marketplace · What to expect in the April jobs report · 6 May 2026 podcast

But by March 2026, wage gains had fallen to just 3.5%, at the same time inflation was spiking from the Iran war.

In a context where inflation is somewhere around 3%, you're talking about real wage growth going to near zero.

Eroding workers' purchasing power.

I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.

Sort of a dark joke that you hear around town all the time.

We're praying to get head on direct hit by a hurricane.

So we're bringing in raw saltwater.

We basically send it through really, really large sand filters, same thing you would see on your pool.

The water is our top priority because if the water is not right, the animals living in it can't be healthy.

We've developed some clever ways to completely take the splash park off of the potable water systems.

I think about it every day.

It sounds like we don't have water and you can't come and enjoy a vacation in Corpus Christi.

That's not true.

So every day through this ship channel moves about $340 million worth of goods.

Majority of it is export.

We don't want anyone to have to shut down.

We don't want curtailment.

We don't want it for our industry.

We don't want it for our residents.

We have had a couple that were very favorable to coming here in past years who ended up making a decision not to because of the dwindling water supplies.

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