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The Dayton Regional STEM School Local Economics Podcast Project

This podcast is a compilation of projects completed by the 11th Grade Economics Classes as they study the local economy. The podcasts represent student research of stories in which macro and microeconomic topics converge in the real world. © All podcasts are the property of the authors and may be redistributed with credit given to The Dayton Regional STEM School.

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Ryan Looks at the Effects of Raising the Minimum Wage...

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2016/05/16

In this podcast, Ryan explains how a minimum wage of $8.10 will effect a slower growth of CPI than a minimum wage of $10.00 because businesses don’t have to pass that extra cost on to their customers, and it allows businesses to use that money that would otherwise be paid to employees to expand their company and employ more people.Resources: Meer, J., & West, J. (2016). Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics. Journal Of Human Resources, 51(2), 500-522.

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Kayla Cindric Discusses How Increasing the Minimum...

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2016/05/16

In this podcast, Kayla Cindric discusses minimum wage and how increasing the wage to $15.00 would affect the Dayton area. She interviewed, Jeremy Lutz, and employer who hires people to clean buildings and repair them and who understands how the increase of minimum wage will affect the economy in Dayton. The topic of the effects of increasing minimum wage was researched and opinions were formulated about the issue. Increasing minimum wage has benefits and negative effects for different positions in

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Drewing, Horton, Abridge Study the Effects of...

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2015/12/18

In this podcast, Shetasia Akridge, Lauren Drewing, and Christina Horton express their views and findings on the possibility or option of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Their main focus is on how small businesses, including the employers and the employees, will be negatively affected. They interviewed Raymond Good, a local small business owner, about his personal perspective on the issues concerning the minimum wage and how his company could be affected by it. Overall, these group

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Melonie and Jake Look at Raising the Minimum Wage...

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2015/12/18

In this podcast, Jake and Melonie investigate how raising the federal minimum wage above $10 would affect small business, their employees, and the Dayton area. While investigating, Jake and Melonie interview Dan Young, the owner Young's Dairy in Yellow Springs. Although they expected their results, Jake and Melonie realized how complex this issue really can be. Resources:

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Ben, Connor, and Keshawn look at Raising Minimum Wage...

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2015/12/18

The following is a podcast that covers the topic of raising the minimum wage to $15. We researched the following topic using these websites: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/business/economy/brown-wants-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-15-but-doubts/npKmL/ and https://mises.org/library/yes-minimum-wages-still-increase-unemployment. To get thorough research and a good point of view on this topic, we interviewed a local dentists who owns his own

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Kameryn Looks at Raising Minimum Wage in Dayton

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2015/12/18

In this podcast, Kameryn talks the minimum wage and how a change would affect the Dayton area. He does this by interviewing Ray Wilcoxson, a Dayton small construction business owner, in the local area. Kameryn gets more insight on how minimum wages really affect a small business owner in this economy and gets some great information from it. Kameryn ends up learning a lot from this experience. Resources:

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Orlando and Johnson look at Raising Minimum Wage to...

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2015/12/18

In this podcast, Orlando and Alan discuss raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, as well as interview two custodial staff at DRSS and then discuss their point of view. Research Link: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44995 News Articles: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/18/3303201/cbo-minimum-wage/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/upshot/what-a-15-minimum-wage-would-mean-for-your-city.html?_r=2

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Trey Guy how have gas prices affected consumer spending?

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2015/07/06

How has falling gas prices affected the revenue of abusiness? How has gas sales changed since gas prices fell? How has gas pricesaffected consumer spending on other products? In this podcast we will belooking into these very questions to try to find an answer during this podcast.

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Celeste, Josh, and Ryan look at Amazon's effect on...

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2015/06/29

In this podcast, Celeste, Josh, and Ryan look at Amazon's effect on small businesses. A number of local companies are being nearly put out of business by online purchases, which you might say isn’t all Amazon. But nearly 40% of online purchases are on Amazon or Amazon-owned companies. Amazon is chipping away the retail economy with their massive fulfillment centers that are around the country. They hold most of the various items seen on amazon and they are shipped from those centers to local post

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Sydney on the impact of Genetically Modified Organisms

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2015/06/22

This podcast looks at how Genetically Modified Organisms affect small farms and farmer's markets, as well as the future of Ohio's agriculture industry. https://ofbf.org/education-and-reference/faq/ http://www.naturalnews.com/031817_GMOs_seeds.html http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/DBS/PDFFiles/10wp503.pdf

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Brandon and Jordan on how unemployment fraud affects...

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2015/06/15

In this podcast, Brandon and Jordan discuss the economic impacts of unemployment fraud on our local and national economy. They interview Mr. Randy Tucker, a reporter from the Dayton Daily News, in order to learn more about how unemployment fraud affects our economy. They learned that there various ways people commit fraud. Also, they learned that unemployment fraud virtually has no effect on our economy. This topic ended up being very interesting to research. Brandon and Jordan learned a lot about

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Bethany Explores how the retirement of Baby Boomers...

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2015/06/08

In this podcast Bethany explores the world of skilled trades. She looks into what it takes to be an apprentice and how the looming retirement of baby boomers is going to affect the amount of skilled trade workers in our area. To answer this question she interviews Mike Gebhart from IBEW local 82. Mike is the director of the Joint Apprenticeship ad training committee. He works hands on to ensure that each apprentice experiences an array of skills before their five-year education comes to an end or

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Haley and Martin on the economic impact of the new...

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2015/06/01

In this podcast, Haley and Martin look at the economic impact of the new auto glass company FuYao has and will have on Moraine as it moves into the old General Motors plant. They are currently renovating the area and already have a few machines and mechanisms that will be used in their production line. Mike Fullenkamp, Tanya Adams, and Ben Nartker were there to tell us more.

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Eva and Makayla look at how Matthew's Bill will...

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2015/05/31

In this podcast, we, Makayla Day and Eva Peterson-Smith talk about the effects that Matthew's Bill will have on medium/large businesses and franchises in Ohio. They sit down with the CEO of American Pi located in downtown Dayton Mrs. Danielle Fritz and her business partner Mrs. Linda Decker, who provided insight on the business side of it and how much they would have to spend in order to comply with the bill. Mrs. Fritz and Mrs. Decker provided their opinions on the bill and went into detail about

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Alex Helton on Matthew's Bill's impact impact on Ohio...

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2015/05/31

In this podcast, Alex discusses Senate Bill 112 (or Matthew's Bill) and whether or not it will be financially possible for Ohio businesses to afford the accommodations that this bill would mandate. He interviews Israel Hoke, who is a general manager of Penn Station in Huber Heights, Ohio. Alex finds that smaller businesses may have a hard time affording this bill and that the bill may have to be revised in order for businesses to offer their full support towards the bill.

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Sammie and Joe on the impact of Matthew's Bill on...

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2015/05/31

In this podcast, Sammie and Joe look at the impact of Matthew's Bill on public libraries.

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JTC Meredith looks at the effect of Matthew's Bill on...

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2015/05/31

How will Matthew's Bill affect new and renovating small businesses? In this podcast JTC Meredith talked with Justin Howard, owner of the Black Box Improv Theater, about how Matthew's Bill could affect his business if it were to go into effect before he was done renovating.

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Caleb and Sha'Tera on the impact of Matthew's BIll on...

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2015/05/31

This podcast looks at the effects of Matthew's Bill on small businesses. In it, Caleb and Sha'Tera interviewed one local business owner about their views on the bill.

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Alex T. and Maggie on the effects of Matthew's Bill...

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2015/05/31

In this podcast, Alex T. Smith and Maggie Moreda explore the economic impact Matthew’s Bill could have on the personal finances of people with disabilities. They interview Mr. Greg Kramer, the interim Executive Director at the Access Center for Independent Living. He believes that the passing of Matthew’s Bill will increase the amount of time and money spent by people with disabilities.

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AJ and Adam on the impact of Matthew's Bill on small...

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2015/05/21

In this podcast AJ and Adam interviewed the owner of Giovanni's to talk about the impacts of Senate Bill 112 on small businesses. During the interview they discover that the business does not have any adult changing tables in their restaurant and that adding them would require a bit of remodeling. Over the course of the interview she revealed that it could be difficult to add them to the existing restrooms. Read more about Matthew's Bill on their Website.

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