Slender Starbucks, Medicaid at risk, and the gold card visa
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, we have potential cuts ahead for Medicaid, Starbucks goes back to basics and gold card immigration.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Whalen Wong and joining me today all the way from Denver, Colorado, Indicator |
| 0:19.5 | producer Cooper Katzma Kim. |
| 0:21.3 | I've been released from behind the producer curtains. |
| 0:24.5 | And joining me and Waylon Wong, our Planet Money pal won Kenny Malone. |
| 0:28.6 | Yes. Oh, Cooper, you can hear the high altitude, the low oxygen. It's sounding great. |
| 0:34.0 | Yay. And we are gathered here for one reason and one reason only. Indicators of the week. |
| 0:40.7 | That is right. It is our weekly look at interesting numbers from the news on today's show we have. |
| 0:47.3 | Danger ahead for Medicaid. Gold card immigration and... |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just reading the script. Starbucks did what now? |
| 0:55.3 | Coming up after the break. |
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