Chicken meat, Gulf of Mexico lawsuit and Social Security beyond the grave

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darren woods, and you're listening to Indicators of the Week.

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  Today we're joined by two of our colleagues from Planet Money, Erica Barris, so.

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  Happy to be here.

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  And Mary Childs.

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  What's up?

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  What's up?

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  Today on the show, we're going to recap this week's top indicators,

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  from hypothetical political lawsuits over the Gulf of Mexico,

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  America, to why the price of chicken hasn't gone up,

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  to whether tens of millions of dead people are indeed collecting Social Security checks.

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  We'll have all that after the break.

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  So for Indicators of the Week, my indicator is 1%,

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  which is how much the price of chicken meat has risen over the last year.

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