PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center:Economics, boosternomics and Swiftnomics

For this week's Indicators of the Week,PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center Darian is joined by NPR 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 brings an update on the new covid booster and who's paying for it. And Jeff talks about Taylor Swift...again. He promises it has to do with economics.

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