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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Whalen Wong here with the amazing Adrienne Ma. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello. |
| 0:18.0 | And the delightful Dary in Woods. |
| 0:19.9 | A pleasure as always. |
| 0:21.5 | The Indicator Triumvirate has gathered here on this fantastic Friday because it is the most hello today. |
| 0:27.8 | Indicators of the week. |
| 0:29.4 | On today's episode, we've got new evidence on job retraining. |
| 0:34.4 | Diner numbers going down in D.C. |
| 0:36.0 | And the trading platform Robin Hood is offering you a whole new way to lose money. |
| 0:40.6 | Where do I sign up? |
| 0:42.2 | We'll explain after the break. |
| 0:49.0 | Indicators of the week up first, Darien Woods. |
| 0:52.5 | My indicator is one in three, one in three injured workers who |
| 0:56.7 | avoided depression because they went through retraining. That's according to this working |
| 1:01.0 | paper out this week through the National Bureau of Economic Research. Okay, so that sounds like a |
| 1:05.7 | pretty hopeful result. It's very good. This paper looked at people who had been injured badly in Denmark, enough to |
| 1:12.4 | make them lose earnings. And, you know, injuring yourself this way is terrible, both your physical |
| 1:17.8 | health, but also your mental health. The authors find that these people are more likely to take |
| 1:23.0 | antidepressants. That all tracks. And the authors wanted to quantify what exactly reskilling did for mental |
| 1:29.1 | health. So the way things work in Denmark is that some diplomas or vocational degrees allow you to |
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