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Interest rates. Overdraft fees. Icelandic pizza. Explore the economics in everything. From @npr @planetmoney MERCH: https://t.co/SjtQ1HOU2D 📧 [email protected]
Joined November 2017
🧵(1/2) Heads up that tonight’s Jobs Friday episode tweet will be our last for awhile. We’ve decided to take a break from Twitter. 💔 We’ll big time miss #econtwitter and hearing from listeners. Please continue to write to us, listen and subscribe ...
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Whether workers are quitting or being laid off or fired tells us a lot about worker power. @aaronsojourner joins the show to talk about the #laborleverageratio that measures this difference. And if you’re wondering, yes there will be airhorn. https://t.co/tvgJOuT6Dx
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It's one thing to quit your job and a completely other thing to get laid off or fired. A new indicator compares quits with firings and layoffs to measure who has more power in today's labor market,...
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As a candidate, Joe Biden promised to make climate change a priority. But as president, he’s seemed friendly to oil and gas. What gives? https://t.co/GgFc7eTEic
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As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make climate change a major priority, But since taking office, President Joe Biden seems pretty friendly to the fossil fuel industry. What gives?For...
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“There is no limit on how much of that we can do … other than that it must meet the test under the law.” – Jerome Powell @jeannasmialek talks about her new book on the Fed, Limitless https://t.co/56PJnf7aZL
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🚨 Who wants to be in this week's Jobs Friday?! 🚨 If you recently left a job, either you quit or were fired or laid off, send us a 30 second voice memo and tell us what happened --> indicator@npr.org
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How a banking system originally designed to support affordable housing ended up loaning billions to failing banks like First Republic. w @aarondklein @mrsgirma
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Unsung hero of the financial system or enabler of failing banks? Today on the show, how the Federal Home Loan Bank system, originally designed to support homeownership and affordable housing, ended...
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Drop us a 30 second voicemail with your name and what happened and you could be featured in the next Jobs Friday! Send to <<indicator@npr.org>>
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It’s the end of influencer week and there’s still so much to cover! We’ll take a crack at it today. https://t.co/hYtA29WzkB
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The world of influencing reproduces and amplifies a lotta IRL dynamics. From sneaky contracts to discrimination, the industry’s dark underbelly. https://t.co/kR3lV3aw3L
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Bonus points if you start the voice memo with “It’s not me, it’s you…” or “It’s not you…it’s me”
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Drop us a 30 second voicemail with your name and what happened and you could be featured in the next Jobs Friday! Send to <<indicator@npr.org>>
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Lots of people are changing jobs – but was it your choice or your employer’s? Did you quit or were you laid off or fired? Help us with an unscientific poll to measure worker power! ⬇️
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My first interview with NPR 🎉 and pretty much a dream topic: the professionalization of being an influencer. Thank you @radiosmith + @CoreyTBridges + @DarianWoods for including me!
We all want to do what we love with no boss, right? Today, how a generation grew up believing they could make that dream a reality through ~influencing~ It’s the 3rd of our 5 part series on the influencer industry, with @liahaberman & @jalynbaiden
https://t.co/WDQemrGRxB
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We all want to do what we love with no boss, right? Today, how a generation grew up believing they could make that dream a reality through ~influencing~ It’s the 3rd of our 5 part series on the influencer industry, with @liahaberman & @jalynbaiden
https://t.co/WDQemrGRxB
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'Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life,' they said. How Gen Z is trying to do just that through ~influencing~For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscr...
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Kendall Hoyt is a fashion influencer with 500,000 followers on TikTok. She still works another full-time job, which is not unusual. https://t.co/COTV55mviR
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A few thousand followers ain’t gonna cut it if you want to make a full-time living as an influencer https://t.co/COTV55lXtj
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