Join editor Libby Nelson (@libbyanelson) and reporters Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) and Madeleine Ngo (@maddiengo) for a summer policy wrap-up. Inflation, the economy, and gas prices were on everyone’s minds, but we have even more policy news to talk about. Both Congress and the Biden administration made one last late-summer policy push with the Inflation Reduction Act and student loan cancellation. What does this all mean for you? Listen to find out!
References:
School vaccine mandates for Covid-19 are not happening
Will student loan forgiveness make inflation worse?
Inflation is finally slowing down. Will things get cheaper?
The inflation numbers are bad — but how bad are they?
GDP declined again — but that might not mean we're in a recession
”Standard Oil” octopus cartoon
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director
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