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When you do the numbers on how many people police killed in nonviolent incidents just last year — to say nothing of the video and testimony coming out of multiple American cities this week alone — you can’t come to any other conclusion. This is a broken system. Also on the docket today, with guest host Marielle Segarra: A third vaccine, dating in the pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service and the “denim cycle.”

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

  • Read Marielle’s work for Marketplace here
  • U.S. Economy Ramps Up on Spending Surge, Hiring Gains” from The Wall Street Journal
  • PepsiCo bets on vaccine-led reopenings for soda sales boost” from Reuters
  • Over half of police-involved killings in 2020 began after non-violent incidents ” from Axios
  • Pfizer CEO says third Covid vaccine dose likely needed within 12 months” from CNBC
  • Stanford begins testing Pfizer vaccine in babies and young children” from Mercury News
  • ‘A win-win-win proposal’: Banking and booze could save the U.S. Postal Service, experts say” from NBC News
  • Banking at the post office? Service would help millions of ‘unbanked’ Americans” from the Chicago Tribune opinion section
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