Teen births are plummeting — and economists are judging your Christmas gifts

Explain It to Me

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Society & Culture, News, Education, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In a very merry Christmas day episode of the Weeds, Ezra and Matt talk to Sarah about how why teen birth rate fell in half since the mid-2000s — and whether MTV's 16 and Pregnant might have anything to do with it. Also in this episode: an economic critique of Christmas presents and a deep dive into Hillary Clinton's pledge not to tax the middle class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	Obvious need lobbyists.
0:07.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds, Vox's policy podcast on the Penetly Network.
0:21.1	I'm Matthew Glacias, joined as usual by my colleagues as Recline and Sarah Cliff.
0:25.2	I'm pretty excited to be here.
0:27.0	Are you excited?
0:28.0	How was it?
0:29.0	I'm on a scale of one to ten.
0:31.8	We're recording a couple of days before Christmas, but this episode will be released on Christmas
0:38.5	Day itself.
0:39.5	It is our Christmas gift to the nation.
0:42.6	And before we're finally the first.
0:44.8	I think, honestly, spending time with family is a little overrated.
0:49.2	If you can sit back, relax, enjoy the fun policy-oriented vibes here.
0:55.4	I disagree.
0:56.4	I think that this is a good whole family activity.
0:59.2	Oh, like gather around the farm.
1:01.0	Gather around, yes.
1:02.0	Right.
1:03.0	Like the country used to do around radio.
1:04.0	Like the fireside addresses.
1:05.2	Exactly.
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