Earlier this month, Madison365 launched Lasting Impacts, a year-long series investigating the local impacts of COVID, especially for communities of color.

For today’s show, Wednesday host Carousel Bayrd speaks with Madison365’s executive editor Robert Chappell about the first two stories in the series about how the pandemic reduced credit card debt in Wisconsin and how nonprofits weathered the early days of COVID—and, in some ways, have thrived.

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“A generation of savers:” The pandemic reduced our credit card debt. Will it stick?

“A cultural shift.” Nonprofits see lasting changes — some subtle, some seismic — coming out of the pandemic

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