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When economist Chris Ruhm first got the results from his study on the possible connection between recession and health, he thought he had made a mistake. But time and time again, he got the same results, overturning a decade of previous economic findings. Today, how a nation’s health relates to your own. Related EpisodesHealthcare and […]

An orange car on display at an electric vehicle car show in Birmingham, Ala. in September 2023. Stephen Bisaha/Gulf States Newsroom hide caption toggle caption Stephen Bisaha/Gulf States Newsroom An orange car on display at an electric vehicle car show in Birmingham, Ala. in September 2023. Stephen Bisaha/Gulf States Newsroom A new Hyundai plant in […]

SAN FRANCISCO – MAY 28: Genna Dubrob (L) and Manuel Ordonez (R) move a finished mattress at McRoskey Mattress May 28, 2009 in San Francisco, California. New orders for US durable goods rose 1.9 percent in April, the biggest monthly gain since December 2007. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle […]

A woman uses a laptop on April 3, 2019, in Abidjan. According to the figures of the platform of the fight against cybercrime (PLCC) of the national police, nearly one hundred crooks of the internet, were arrested in 2018 in Ivory Coast, a country known for its scammers on the web (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO […]

SAN LORENZO, CA – JANUARY 13: A customer holds a handful of Powerball tickets at Kavanagh Liquors. Dozens of people lined up outside of Kavanagh Liquors in hopes of winning the estimated record-breaking $1.5 billion dollar jackpot. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images SAN LORENZO, CA […]

Nurses wait to administer shots at a Covid-19 mass vaccination site at Martinsville speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia on March 12, 2021. Community leaders, the heads of the Sovah Health hospital, and the speedway all came out to help and support the hospital nurses and the Virginia Department of Health. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty […]

Mark Warwick and Paige Posey host a morning show called ‘The Breakfast Club’ on their AM/FM station in Hendersonville, N.C. Julia Ritchey/beragampengetahuan hide caption toggle caption Julia Ritchey/beragampengetahuan Mark Warwick and Paige Posey host a morning show called ‘The Breakfast Club’ on their AM/FM station in Hendersonville, N.C. Julia Ritchey/beragampengetahuan When some automakers confirmed this […]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Bill Pugliano/Getty Images This episode was originally published on November 14, 2022 This week, Ford announced it was pausing work on a new $3.5 billion battery plant in Michigan. President of the United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, viewed this as a “thinly veiled threat” to cut jobs. But this is a factory […]

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and serious due to human-caused climate change. This is prompting a new industry focused on residential wildfire preparedness. Today, we consider the new technology addressing wildfire risk and the cost of protecting yourself. Related Episodes:Gambling, literally, on climate change (Apple Podcasts / Spotify) For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights Mana Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights Mana For this week’s Indicators of the Week, Darian is joined by beragampengetahuan colleagues Jeff Guo and Sydney Lupkin. We get into the the latest numbers on child poverty in the U.S. and what it tells us about effective policy intervention. Sydney […]