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This week… the real story behind food expiration dates. It may or may not involve Sarah Aida Gonzalez drinking milk from the trash. npr.org/2022/07/15/111…

In Idaho, milk can be sold for 21 days after it's pasteurized. In Oregon, it's 23 days. In Montana...just 12 days. The science is the same. But food dates are inconsistent. npr.org/2022/07/15/111… And it leads to a lot food waste.

“Every single time [you go to the grocery store]...you buy 3 bags of groceries…you walk to the trash can, and put 1 of them in the trash.” Great podcast on how confusing “Best by” dates contribute to the #FoodWaste problem. NPR's Planet Money Sarah Aida Gonzalez npr.org/2022/07/15/111…

Where you thought the carried interest loophole started vs Where it actually started n.pr/1planetmoney

I really really really wanna audit like 10 econ classes this year -- as a reporter. Is this allowed?? Any econ professors wanna to let me crash their classes?

Whatever a gallon of gas costs at your gas station right now, $0.65 of the price comes from just refining the raw ingredient. Where does the rest come from? Listen here. We break down the price of a gallon, cent, by cent. npr.org/2022/08/31/112…

I’m only 13:42 mins in but I’m gonna go ahead and say this is the best NPR's Planet Money show I’ve ever heard npr.org/2022/10/21/113… Such personalities! Amanda Aronczyk Greg Rosalsky Jeff Guo

So we just became a record label NPR's Planet Money for this guy, Earnest Jackson: npr.org/2022/10/25/113… Earnest has dreamt of stardom since he was 5. And he's gotten close. Now we're going all in on Earnest and his long lost song from 1975 called "Inflation."

Super cool to help out Erika Beras and Sarah Aida Gonzalez on this podcast: NPR's Planet Money launches a label and re-discovers a star in Earnest Jackson and his 47 year old evergreen hit, ‘Inflation’ npr.org/2022/10/25/113…

In Part 2: We deliver our contract to our artist! npr.org/2022/10/28/113… The whole world can now hear Earnest's long lost song, Inflation, from 47 years ago.

Econ in the front. Party in the back! NPR's Planet Money in a nutshell 📸:Mamadi Doumbuya

Started a record label & released a song to see how artists get paid. We got *over 1 million streams* putting us *in the top 1%* of songs streamed on Spotify ever! And ... well listen to how much $$$ we made: npr.org/2023/03/17/116…

Swooning!!! Jasmine Garsd Garcia Sarah Aida Gonzalez

Aqui con unas chingonas in journalism Anamaria Artemisa Sayre Jasmine Garsd Garcia on LATINA Style Inc. ❤️

The 4-day school week is here. A lot of the adults in the room really like it. But is it good ... for kids?? Listen here: npr.org/2023/10/25/119…

Any of you remember those weird assemblies in school where someone would try to get us to sell chocolate or wrapping paper to win prizes? Well, here's the secret world behind school fundraisers and why schools turn kids into little salespeople: npr.org/2024/02/28/119…

The Damage Already Done by the 145% Tariff This podcast is a very helpful deep dive from the team at NPR's Planet Money into how the 145% US tariff on Chinese imports inflicted significant financial damage on US businesses despite only lasting a month. It focuses not on abstract