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| Good morning and happy Thursday, Daily Money readers. Jayme Deerwester here, starting out on a heavy note with the culture-war-du-jour. |
| Conservatives are taking aim at how racism is taught – not just in schools but also in diversity training at private companies like Walmart, CVS, Disney and Verizon. Their rallying cry: critical race theory , which examines the role race and racism in U.S. law and institutions plays in the unequal treatment of Black people from slavery and Jim Crow to today. |
| "How is it not a hostile work environment to be attacking people based on their race or telling them that they are privileged or that they are part of oppressive systems when all they are doing is showing up to work and trying to earn a living?" Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, told supporters in December. "We believe this corporate CRT is basically corporate-sanctioned racism." |
| Does he have a point? Or is it even a politician's place to attempt to dictate the training curriculum at private companies? Jessica Guynn examines the arguments over how diversity is discussed in the workplace. |
| On to today's ... |
| 💡DAILY INSIGHT. 💡 As an overheated housing market puts the dream of homeownership out of reach of many ordinary Americans, manufactured homes are growing in popularity because their cost is roughly half that of homes built on a permanent site. |
| Unlike a traditional site-built house, which is constructed at its final location using multiple teams of subcontractors, a manufactured home is built in an indoor facility and delivered to its location. That lowers costs by improving the efficiency in the home-building process: All the teams needed to build the manufactured home are located in the facility, dramatically reducing labor costs. |
| And these are nothing like the mobile homes or double-wide trailers of yore. |
| "There's a lot of demand for our homes right now. And that's because people are looking for that extra space. They're looking to own their own four walls, have outdoor space, enough space for a home office," says Lesli Gooch, CEO of Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), a national trade organization. "Today's manufactured homes are built to a federal building code, are structurally secure and resilient, energy-efficient and include a range of modern features that today's consumers want." |
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| 🎶 MOOD MUSIC. 🎶 This lyric by Jason Mraz goes out to our favorite furry co-pilots: "I'm touring around the nation on extended vacation. See, I got Elsa the dog, who exceeds my limitation. I say, 'I like your style, crazy pound pup! You need a ride? Well, come on, girl, hop in the truck!'" |
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