Should we care about political polls? - a podcast by Marketplace
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Every election season, headlines speculate about which political polls got it right and how others got it so wrong. A listener called in to ask if they even matter. We’ll get into it and answer questions about whether the 2017 tax cuts set us up for inflation and state lawmakers’ surprisingly low wages. Plus, how are individual shareholders affected when companies like Twitter go from public to private?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Reporting on Asian Americans’ views is a challenge even as polls evolve” from Pew Research Center
- “Why it’s so hard to agree on the causes of inflation” from Marketplace
- “Comparison of state legislative salaries” from Ballotpedia
- “How do I vote at a corporate election?” from Investor.gov
- “Few individual investors participate in shareholder voting. Here’s how that may be changing” from CNBC
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