The Breakroom gang joins host Celeste Headlee to weigh in on the week's news. Our panel this week includes people who all work in agriculture. We have Andrew Thompson of Dixie, Matthew Raiford of Brunswick, Haylene Green of Atlanta, and Whit Whitmire of Atlanta.

  BREAKROOM TOPICS:

1) The small town of Grantville in Coweta County recently put all city employees on a four-day work schedule. The city manager says it’s an incentive for workers who receive few benefits and no longer have access to a retirement plan. Would a four-day work week be an incentive for you?  

2) Starbucks is in hot water right now over a lawsuit. The company is being sued for putting too much ice in its drinks. The lawsuit contends that some 24-ounce size cups have as little as 14-ounces of liquid and the rest is ice. Do you think you get your money’s worth at Starbucks?   

3) A new Pew survey finds that the ideological gap between highly educated Americans and less-educated Americans is growing. If you’ve been to graduate school you are now twice as likely to hold consistently liberal views as opposed to consistently conservative views. A recent article in The Atlantic looked at the assumption that most college campuses lean left. That invites the question: Does knowledge support a liberal worldview, or do universities simply indoctrinate a liberal worldview?

4) Ted Cruz may have bowed out of the presidential race this week, but people are still talking about something that happened during one of his campaign stops. A little boy heckled Cruz during a rally, yelling “You suck!” This is how Cruz responded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLwFK_6jY_Q

Ironically this happened just days after a big new meta-analysis in the Journal of Family psychology confirmed that spanking is counter-productive. It leads to increased aggression, anti-social behavior, mental health and cognitive problems. Was Cruz promoting abuse or was he just putting a bratty kid in his place?

5) Tax Day is behind us...or ahead of us depending on how you look at it.  The IRS doesn’t always get the warmest response. The Republican Study Committee, which includes members of Congress, called recently for the complete elimination of the IRS.  Would you like to see the IRS go away?

6) Now that Donald Trump is the apparent Republican nominee in the presidential race, the question is who will be his running mate? One person who hasn’t shied away from wanting the job is former Georgia congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. He told the New York Times, “If a potential president says I need you, it would be very hard for a patriotic citizen to say no.” So, would a Trump-Gingrich ticket be appealing to the average voter?

7) There is a HUGE gap between what foodies talk about in person and online, and what Americans actually eat. Allrecipes.com is the most popular English-language food website in the world. And thanks to its search engine optimization, the site’s recipes constantly appear near the top of Google search results for food. But as was discussed in a recent Slate article, those dishes tend to be very amateur, and not necessarily the most appealing. What’s your go-to source for recipes?