The Dayton Regional STEM School Local Economics Podcast Project

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

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 this economy.
Resources: http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/news-wire/2014/03/06/do-most-small-business-owners-really.html http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2015/08/21/guest-column-wage-issues-a-concern-fordayton-area.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2014/02/18/minimum-wage-increase-could-cost.html
http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2014/01/facts-about-the-minimum-wage
Articles: http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/1998/04/06/story6.html?s=print

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

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 "tops off", as they say at the IBEW. Before this interview with Mike she explores how apprenticeships are funded and their growth the past few years including the number of Journeymen in the state of Ohio. She finds that the number of apprentices in Ohio has decreased slightly in previous years.