SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty
The Indicator from Planet Money

SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 20269 min
  • Business & money

This week our top indicators include changes to the funding model for SNAP, private equity’s influence on youth baseball and Meta’s attempt to find flaws in its brand new AI assistant. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. Your Next Listen –Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store –Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR App Connect with The Indicator from Planet Money –The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram, TikTok and YouTube –Find the Planet Money book –Find the Planet Money gam...

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N.P.R. This is the Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Waylon Wong. I'm Ricky Mulvey. I'm Adrian Ma, and this is...

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Indicators of the Week! It's the show where we share our favorite numbers from the news. Today we'll be covering food benefits, America's favorite pastime, and meta's war against bugs.

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That's coming up after the break. This week on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, we talk with David Byrne about the early fashion advice he got from Lou Reed. I had really hairy arms at that point.

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