{"id":334681,"date":"2026-03-08T01:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334681\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:52:31","slug":"what-canada-needs-to-learn-from-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334681\/","title":{"rendered":"What Canada needs to learn from Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

L3Harris employees at the Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Huntsville, Alabama, in October, 2024.L3Harris Technologies\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Listen to this episode by clicking above or subscribe to The Decibel<\/a> on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Amazon Music<\/a>, iHeartRadio<\/a>, Pocket Casts<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When it comes to one economic indicator, Canada is lagging behind one of the U.S.\u2019s poorest states<\/a>: Alabama. And while GDP per capita is an imperfect metric of wealth, Globe reporter Tim Kiladze<\/a> went down to Alabama and found that there are some things the state has done that are worth taking note of. <\/p>\n

Tim joins the show to share what he saw down south, explore the criticisms of GDP per capita and respond to the reaction his reporting has generated. <\/p>\n

Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: L3Harris employees at the Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Huntsville, Alabama, in October, 2024.L3Harris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,2502,122199,122201,122193,122196,122197,113,61,60,122198,122195,53841,24631,5596,153924,122200,122194,122192],"class_list":{"0":"post-334681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canada-news","10":"tag-canadian-daily-news-podcast","11":"tag-daily-podcast-canada","12":"tag-decibel","13":"tag-decibel-globe-and-mail","14":"tag-decibel-podcast","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-listen-to-decibel-podcast","19":"tag-listen-to-the-decibel","20":"tag-nodelphi","21":"tag-nopolly","22":"tag-podcast","23":"tag-podcast-episode-id-47c1a4b9-2be9-4744-9727-f3906edcb7f9","24":"tag-the-daily-for-canada","25":"tag-thedecibel","26":"tag-yespop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}