This is Planet Money from NPR.

Hey everyone, I'm Stacey Vannick-Smith.

I host the indicator, Planet Money's Daily Podcast.

And I am in your Planet Money feed today to bring you two recent episodes about a big problem

that we have been seeing in the economy right now, inflation.

So inflation basically just means prices rising.

And in the past year, we've seen prices on a whole bunch of things rise.

In some cases, really fast.

Overall, prices have grown about 7.5%, that's according to the consumer price index, which

tracks these things.

So today on the show, two stories about the effects of inflation.

And about what can be done about it.

Crystal Moore lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

She's 52 years old and she works a lot.

She's a lot of jobs.

Yeah, Crystal is a gig worker.

And over the last couple of years, she's driven for ride share companies, also delivering

meals and groceries for InstaCard and UberEats.

And producer Julia Richie, hello.

Hi.

You sat down with Crystal Moore in Hendersonville.

Yeah.

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