Segments From This Episode

• What the heck is going on with inflation?

  Julie Smith of Lafayette chats about just how transitory the inflation we’re experiencing could be.

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• Small-business owners are struggling with their supply chains. But they’re more optimistic.

  by Caroline Champlin

  

  The National Federation of Independent Business reports nearly half of small businesses surveyed raised prices in August.

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• Government support credited with decline in poverty in 2020

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  The Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure showed a big decline from 2019, despite a year of pandemic-induced economic disruption.

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• 10 years later, was the Occupy Wall Street movement effective?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham

  

  Sociologist David Meyer talks about how the movement drew attention to economic inequality and influenced contemporary U.S. politics.

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• Climate change may force 200 million people to migrate, study says

  by Samantha Fields

  

  And the mass migrations could start within a decade, according to a new report from the World Bank.

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• Will “South Park” creators remake Colorado’s legendary Casa Bonita?

  by Amy Scott

  

  Our reporter goes behind the scenes at a childhood favorite, which may soon be in the hands of Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

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