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    Explore "financial_support" with insightful episodes like "Why Israel uses diaspora bonds" and "Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?" from podcasts like ""The Indicator from Planet Money" and "The Daily"" and more!

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    Why Israel uses diaspora bonds

    Why Israel uses diaspora bonds
    Israel has long raised money from individual supporters living overseas through a tool called diaspora bonds. This financing tool is part patriotic gift and part investment. Today, we look at how diaspora bonds work and how Israel is making use of them for its war effort.

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    Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

    Can the Postal Service Survive the Pandemic?

    The U.S. Postal Service has survived the telegraph, the fax machine and the dawn of the internet. But will it survive coronavirus? Guests: Nicholas Fandos, who covers Congress for The New York Times and Derek Harpe, a Postal Service worker with a mail route in Mocksville, N.C. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

    Background reading:

    • With the coronavirus threatening the Postal Service’s financial viability, a rescue for the organization has become a political battle.