NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Daryan Woods here with Whalen Wong.

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Guys, I'm so excited to be back. It's indicators of the week. You came at just a right time.

We're going to dig into the most interesting numbers from the economic headlines this week.

We have AI shutting out the youths from opportunities. China is super over American soybeans.

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It's all after the break.

It's indicators of the week.

Dary in Woods, you are up first.

My indicator comes from this bombshell analysis of how young workers are getting shut out of jobs because of AI.

And that indicator is minus 13%.

For young people in highly AI-exposed companies, young people's employment has dropped 13% more than their older colleagues.

I feel like this confirms some annex data we've been hearing about how if you are a coder or you're in customer service,

it is a lousy time to be looking for a job in these fields,

especially if you're right out of college. Yeah, I was really excited to see this paper. It came out

of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab because of all that debate. We had some articles and takes

from people living it saying there is an AI jobs apocalypse right now.

And we've had other countertakes that actually, no, we're just in the middle of a hiring

slump from a slackening economy for other reasons.

Yeah, I feel like the hiring slump in tech, that's been happening since before AI was a big

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