The case for sharing your salary
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The case for sharing your salary

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 20269 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

Should money and class figure more prominently in how we identify ourselves? Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist Mona Chalabi thinks yes. Today on the show, a conversation with Mona, author of the forthcoming book Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. Your Next Listen –Chasing the American Dream at Outback Steakhouse –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...

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N.P.R. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Adrian Ma. And I'm Ricky Mulvey. And, Ricky, if I asked you what class you consider yourself, like are you upper class,

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working class, or middle class, what would you say? I'd say I'm a part of podcasting small but mighty middle class. How about you? Small but mighty, that is us. I also consider myself middle class, and maybe that's not Maybe that's not a very original answer, because according to a Gallup survey, 54% of Americans

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consider themselves middle class. Let me ask you this, Ricky. How much money do you make? It's a pretty personal question for a very public podcast, is what I would say.

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