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Interest rates. Overdraft fees. Icelandic pizza. Explore the economics in everything. From @npr @planetmoney

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🧵(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. 💔

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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.

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🧵(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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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?
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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

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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 --> [email protected]

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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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The Fed on Silicon Valley Bank: Our bad.
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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.
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@dcludwinski Stay tuned!

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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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The world of influencing reproduces and amplifies a lotta IRL dynamics. From sneaky contracts to discrimination, the industry’s dark underbelly.
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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 <<[email protected]>>

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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!
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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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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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@alexlau @DarianWoods It's through the link on the webpage. Let us know what you think!

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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
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