MA’s Proposed 4 Day Work Week Program. MA lawmakers have filed legislation that would create a pilot program to study the idea of a 4-day work week. The “Massachusetts Smart Work Week Pilot” is a voluntary program that would let businesses transition to a shorter work week without a reduction in pay. Rep. Josh Cutler, one of the sponsors of this bill joins Dan to discuss how this pilot would work.
Fishing For “Sea Hash.” Audrey Ryan, the daughter of a fisherman, grew up in Mount Desert Island, Maine. She knew her father worked on a fishing vessel pulling up scallops, but she didn’t know he was also pulling up “sea hash” left on the ocean floor by drug smugglers until she was an adult. Ryan joins Dan to tell the secondhand story of how struggling Maine fishermen saw an opportunity hauling “sea hash.”
The Death Penalty Assessed. Despite the federal moratorium on federal executions, the Department of Justice is still fighting efforts to overturn capital punishment convictions. In addition, FL Gov. DeSantis just expanded the death penalty law in the state to include child rapists of kids under the age of 12. Tonight, your thoughts on the death penalty and whether child rape should be a capital crime.
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