A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices

学校手机禁令研究,白领工作萎缩,以及诡异的糖果价格

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-10-31

9 分钟
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It’s … Indicators of the…Eek! (Indicators of the Week.) Our regular look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.  On today’s episode: How cell phone bans in schools affect grades, white collar workers get the axe, and AHHH! Halloween candy inflation!  Related episodes:  Are you afraid of inflation?  A finance fright fest  For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Julia Ritchey and Corey Bridges. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • This is the Indicator for Planet Money.

  • Happy Halloween, by the way.

  • I'm your spooky host, Adrian Ma, here with the witchy whale and wong.

  • That's the witch music from Wizard of Oz.

  • And we are joined by the dredgeful Darian Woods.

  • Happy Halloween to you too.

  • We are here not to scare or to freak you out.

  • Let's leave that to your, you know, everyday lives.

  • We're here to bring you some indicators.

  • Indicators of the week.

  • Yes, it is that show where we take interesting economic headlines from the week.

  • and we bring them to you.

  • It's the same indicators, but this time covered in spiders.

  • I actually am looking at a big spider right now in my studio.

  • Very on theme.

  • I'm hoping it doesn't come any closer.

  • On today's show, we have got the evidence comes in on cell phone bands in schools,