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This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Derrym Woods, and you're listening to Indicators of the Week.

Today we're joined by two of our colleagues from Planet Money, Erica Beres.

So happy to be here.

And Mary Childs.

What's up, what's up?

Today on the show, we're going to recap this week's top indicators from hypothetical lawsuits over the Gulf of Mexico slash America

to why the price of chicken hasn't gone up, to whether tens of millions of

dead people are indeed collecting social security checks.

We'll have all that after the break.

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So for indicators of the week, my indicator is 1%, which is how much the price of chicken meat has risen over the last year, that is in large contrast to egg prices that have nearly doubled in the US.

So chicken is basically flat in price.

Yeah, and this had some listeners to the show asking some questions after we published our story this week on egg prices. So you might recall that the big villain driving up egg prices

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