What happens when we lose healthcare coverage

Segments From This Episode

• A declining personal income measure is bad news for the economy

  by Justin Ho

  

  The decline of a statistic known as personal income excluding transfers is seen as one indicator of a recession.

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• What can companies' first quarter earnings reports tell us about consumer spending?

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  When you look at how individual companies are faring, it's clear that consumers are choosing value over luxury right now.

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• What Fed Chair Warsh's favored inflation measure tells us about the economy

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson

  

  Even when temporary outlier categories are out of the picture, prices still rose more than the Fed’s 2% target in April.

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• “We know what happens when people don’t have health coverage”

  by Samantha Fields

  

  History holds some clues about what’s likely to happen as the new Medicaid work requirements and other cuts are implemented.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• Central banks for the world's major economies meet to set rates this month

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Until the start of the Iran war, most central banks were comfortable holding interest rates steady, or even cutting them. But things are different now.

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• Abandoned oil wells are polluting West Virginia. Plugging them won't be easy.

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Oil well operators are required by law to plug wells once they’re finished using them, in order to prevent leaks. But yet, there are likely millions nationwide that haven’t been plugged.

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