Any of you remember those weird assemblies in school where someone would try to get us to sell chocolate or wrapping paper to win prizes? Well, here's the secret world behind school fundraisers and why schools turn kids into little salespeople: npr.org/2024/02/28/119…

The 4-day school week is here. A lot of the adults in the room really like it. But is it good ... for kids?? Listen here: npr.org/2023/10/25/119…

Aqui con unas chingonas in journalism Anamaria Artemisa Sayre Jasmine Garsd Garcia on LATINA Style Inc. ❤️

Swooning!!! Jasmine Garsd Garcia Sarah Aida Gonzalez

Started a record label & released a song to see how artists get paid. We got *over 1 million streams* putting us *in the top 1%* of songs streamed on Spotify ever! And ... well listen to how much $$$ we made: npr.org/2023/03/17/116…

Econ in the front. Party in the back! NPR's Planet Money in a nutshell 📸:Mamadi Doumbuya

In Part 2: We deliver our contract to our artist! npr.org/2022/10/28/113… The whole world can now hear Earnest's long lost song, Inflation, from 47 years ago.

Super cool to help out Erika Beras and Sarah Aida Gonzalez on this podcast:
NPR's Planet Money launches a label and re-discovers a star in Earnest Jackson and his 47 year old evergreen hit, ‘Inflation’

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So we just became a record label NPR's Planet Money for this guy, Earnest Jackson: npr.org/2022/10/25/113… Earnest has dreamt of stardom since he was 5. And he's gotten close. Now we're going all in on Earnest and his long lost song from 1975 called 'Inflation.'

I’m only 13:42 mins in but I’m gonna go ahead and say this is the best NPR's Planet Money show I’ve ever heard npr.org/2022/10/21/113… Such personalities! Amanda Aronczyk Greg Rosalsky Jeff Guo

Whatever a gallon of gas costs at your gas station right now, $0.65 of the price comes from just refining the raw ingredient. Where does the rest come from? Listen here. We break down the price of a gallon, cent, by cent.
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I really really really wanna audit like 10 econ classes this year -- as a reporter. Is this allowed?? Any econ professors wanna to let me crash their classes?

Where you thought the carried interest loophole started

vs

Where it actually started

n.pr/1planetmoney

i'm biased, but this is one of the best fact-checking jobs i've ever seen.

come work with us and save the day! especially if you have econ/business/finance expertise...

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“Every single time [you go to the grocery store]...you buy 3 bags of groceries…you walk to the trash can, and put 1 of them in the trash.”

Great podcast on how confusing “Best by” dates contribute to the #FoodWaste problem.

NPR's Planet Money Sarah Aida Gonzalez

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This week… the real story behind food expiration dates.

It may or may not involve Sarah Aida Gonzalez drinking milk from the trash.

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In Idaho, milk can be sold for 21 days after it's pasteurized. In Oregon, it's 23 days. In Montana...just 12 days. The science is the same. But food dates are inconsistent. npr.org/2022/07/15/111… And it leads to a lot food waste.

Our NPR's Planet Money tik tok is 🔥 and nerdy and great

No Surprises

Are we in a recession? Or are we about to be? We talk to the group that makes the official call, and they have a checklist to see if a downturn may be a full-blown recession. They look at: depth, diffusion, and duration.

We call them the 3 Ds of DOOM.
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