Segments From This Episode

• Gen Z is taking on more credit card debt

  by Savannah Peters

  

  The credit bureau TransUnion is out with a report showing that borrowers aged 22 to 24 are carrying an average of $2,834 in credit card debt — about a quarter more than millennials in the same age range a decade ago.

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• Stop the (hydraulic) presses!

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  In Apple’s iconic 1984 ad launching the Macintosh, the brand is depicted liberating the human spirit from Orwellian oppression. But an Apple ad released this week can be read as crushing the creative human spirit … into the shape of an even thinner iPad. And it is not sitting well with many.

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• Working toward an economy that meets everyone’s needs

  by David Brancaccio and Natalie White

  

  Natalie Foster, President of the Economic Security Project, discusses the important role of government guarantees in shaping the future of the economy.

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