The secret to upward mobility: Friends (Indicator favorite)

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week, we're sharing some of our favorite Indicator episodes from 2022! Today, we hear one of our most downloaded from the year. This episode originally came out in August.

Who your friends are may be the key to your economic success story. In a groundbreaking study by Harvard researchers, find out why cross-class friendships may be the key ingredient to the American Dream.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the Anicated for Planet Money.
0:07.0	I'm Adrian Ma.
0:08.0	And I'm Whalen Wong.
0:09.2	So we wanted to wrap up this encore week with a sort of listener favorite episode.
0:14.0	We did a call out asking for your favorites and we got some email responses.
0:18.9	A smidge.
0:19.9	A smidge?
0:20.9	We got six.
0:21.9	We'll just call it.
0:22.9	We got six.
0:23.9	So thanks to you, Noel, Pedro, Kurt, Raymar, and two Elizabeths for writing in.
0:28.3	We got the biggest sample size and we thought, okay, another way to figure out what episodes
0:33.0	really were hit with listeners this year was to look at some download numbers.
0:37.6	Cold, hard data, our favorite thing.
0:39.8	And it turns out you all really love hearing us chat about the news.
0:43.7	Surprise.
0:44.7	I know, right?
0:45.7	I mean, no one else in my life enjoys hearing me chat about the news.
0:48.1	But if you look at our top 10 most downloaded episodes of 2022, the list is mostly indicators
0:56.6	of the week.
0:57.6	There are Friday episodes where we offer our hot takes on that week's news.
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