According to a government report released this week, Congress has until 2033 to fix Social Security before retirees receive an automatic benefit cut of about 21%. This is a more optimistic estima...
Back in 2019, The Indicator started checking in on with a Venezuelan economist Gabriela Saade. The economy was in freefall. The country was suffering from hyperinflation and a huge jump in povert...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1197964529/venezuela-elections-economy-maduro
Why do video game workers offer labor at a discount? How can you design a video game for blind and sighted players? Does that design have lessons for other industries? These and other questions ...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1197958978/two-indicators-gaming-industry
What happens when small town politics collide with the climate crisis? And how do hazard maps—maps that show which homes in your neighborhood are at risk of getting destroyed or damaged by a na...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1197964461/hazard-maps-climate-change-home-ownership
Social Security benefits are facing an automatic cut in less than 10 years unless changes are adopted. The report from Social Security trustees predicts the fund will be exhausted in November of ...
Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's new book argues the road to tyranny is paved not by too much, but by too little government.
Social Security's finances have improved slightly in the last year. But the popular retirement program still faces big challenges including the threat of automatic benefit cuts in less than a dec...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249406440/social-security-medicare-congress-fix-boomers-benefits
In Western Colorado, towns and farms are banding together to pay a hundred million dollars for water they don't intend to use. Today on the show, how scarcity, climate change and a first-dibs sys...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1197964453/colorado-shoshone-power-plant-water-rights
Restaurant earnings and pricing tell us the economy is still troubled by inflation but not badly enough for consumers to give up eating out.
It's Jobs Friday and the jobs report is in! There's more jobs! ... but not as many as expected. And there's a teensy bit more unemployment and slower wage growth. But there's an upside ... Plus, ...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1197964423/jobs-friday-may-economy-healthcare-wage-growth