Listener Questions: baby booms, sewing patterns and rural inflation

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's another listener questions episode where we take on what you want to know! On today's show... We look at the U.S. birth rate. Are we booming or busting? Does the Consumer Price Index capture what's happening in rural America? And copyrighting knitting & sewing patterns, it's a tangled issue! If you have a question you'd like us to answer, email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.0	This is the Indicated for Platinum Money.
0:12.8	I'm Adrian Ma.
0:13.8	I'm Whalen Wong and it's another Listener Questions episode.
0:17.8	Wee wee wee!
0:19.3	That's right.
0:20.8	We love getting Listener questions and we love answering them.
0:24.2	Oh yeah and these are really fun.
0:25.4	So let's get to it.
0:26.2	To Dan the Show, we're looking at the US birth rate.
0:28.8	We're looking at inflation in rural versus urban America and a very crafty copyright
0:34.4	issue.
0:35.4	That's all coming up after the break.
0:43.8	Listener questions episode.
0:45.6	First up.
0:46.6	Hi, I'm Jacqueline Mahoney from Baltimore.
0:48.3	Here's my question.
0:49.3	It feels like everyone I know is having a kid right now.
0:52.0	Are we in a post pandemic baby boom?
0:53.9	And if so, are there things we should expect to see down the road in the economy?
0:57.8	Okay, Whalen, you took this one.
0:59.6	What did you find?
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