It’s fairly common for a contract or work agreement to include a non-compete clause, saying the worker can’t go to a competing company for a certain amount of time after leaving their job. But that might not be the case for long - the Federal Trade Commission has put forth a proposal that would ban non-compete agreements. What would that mean for workers and for businesses? The FTC makes rules to prevent unfair competition, but they’re not laws - do they really have the power to make a ban this big? Natalie Pedersen, Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Drexel's LeBow College of Business, helps us explain what’s at stake here and how it could play out.

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The holidays have come and gone. You’re feeling bloated. You need a cleanse. Enter ‘Dry January.’ Over the last couple years, this initiative has really caught on, to the point where restaurants and bars even design special menus for the month. But does it work? Is going cold turkey, only to resume indulgent behaviors a month later, the best way to lead a healthy life? Dr. Mariana Lazo, Associate Research Professor at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, looks at the pros and cons of ‘Dry January.’

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Tipping at a restaurant. Rounding up at the grocery store for a charitable donation. Using the self-checkout line without getting a break on the final bill. The more you think about it, the more you realize just how much consumers are asked to subsidize certain parts of the service industry. Is this ok? What are we actually getting in return? Temple University Associate Professor of Travel and Tourism Dr. Benjamin Altschuler examines these questions, and discusses whether traditional expectations in the service industry are overdue for a change.

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Everyone likes to say America is a nation of immigrants, right? But here’s the thing: the country’s history also reveals that the United States has contributed to its own immigration problem. With immigration such a hot button political issue these days, Sarah Paoletti, the Director of the Transnational Legal Clinic and Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, cuts through the noise and explains what’s really happening, while also analyzing the factors that got the country to this point.

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Lots of factors are working against teachers these days. Among the biggest? Pay, politicization of their profession, and the ripple effects of the pandemic. But recruiting new educators to enter the field is only part of the problem. Keeping the ones who have been around the longest is an issue, too. LaTanya Pattillo is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the non-profit group NWEA, which supports students and educators. She shares her thoughts on some possible solutions.

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Every year, Morning Consult releases a report on the fastest growing brands based on consumer polls. In 2022, Crocs made a comeback, Major League Baseball was big (in a year when the Phillies played in the World Series…coincidence?), and for some reason, people were really into Great Value cream cheese. Joanna Piacenza, Head of Industry Intelligence for Morning Consult, joins us to take a deeper look at this list and what it says about certain brands and the economy overall.

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In 2022, inflation was the big economic buzzword. Interest rates kept going up, as did gas prices, but the job market started to turn around. Where do we stand now to kick off 2023? We check in with our go-to economist, David Fiorenza, to talk about the economic new year - where do we stand now and what does he think is ahead?

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Facial recognition technology has been used for security purposes for decades. But today, businesses are using it to track and identify consumers and employees in ways that many people aren’t aware of - even at grocery stores and convenience stores. Many people are understandably concerned about their privacy, so we asked Samuel Hodge Jr., professor of Legal Studies at Temple University, to explain how this technology works, how it’s being used, and what laws exist around it. We also get into the margin of error in this technology, especially for people of color, women, and older people.

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At one point last week, 84% of Southwest Airlines flights through Philadelphia were canceled, and nationally, they were canceling two to three thousand flights a day - right in the middle of the holidays. The airline is back to normal operation now, but what happened? What pushed Southwest to this breaking point, and what can they and other airlines learn from this? Dr. Benjamin Altschuler, Associate Professor of Travel and Tourism at Temple University, helps us explain this travel fiasco.

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Angelo Cataldi expects the next phase of his life to be tough, at least the transitional part. For the last 30-plus years, he’s dominated Philadelphia sports talk radio as the morning show host on Audacy’s WIP, setting the agenda every day for what fans talk about around the water cooler. But within a matter of weeks, his legendary run will be over. He’s retiring the week after the Eagles’ season ends. In a heartfelt, honest, and revealing conversation, Cataldi chats with one of his former interns, KYW Newsradio’s Dave Uram, about the ups and downs of an impactful yet imperfect career, and what he thinks he might do next.

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