Npr.
This is the indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darren Woods.
We're at this uncertain moment for the economy.
And even Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last week,
we're going to have to see how things actually work out.
In other words, when looking at the near future, even, even he doesn't know where things are headed.
Here at the indicator, we, of course, have been scrutinising all the economic numbers,
but these indicators don't always capture the depth of how people are thinking and reacting.
So from coast to coast, we did something a little different.
For our show today,
we undertook some unscientific polling by interviewing as many people as we could.
We wanted to hear the human voices describing how today's economy feels unsettled, getting better.
Evolving from street parties in the south to an LA bookstore to a boardroom in Denver,
Today we listen for financial signals.
It's an audio photo album of economic snapshots.
From this moment.
Are we overlooking the challenges facing men without college degrees?
Richard Reeves thinks so.
There are a lot of guys out there who are actually poorer than their dads.