{"id":399511,"date":"2026-01-10T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:16:13","slug":"the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399511\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768061773_152_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F14%2Ff4%2F01186aca44c18d4cd64576c48a3f%2Fbc71ff50-f54a-4a3f-8564-7cc6d0e80e9b.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"A woman scans groceries at a self service checkout in a supermarket.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                A woman scans groceries at a self service checkout in a supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>                    Matthew Horwood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Matthew Horwood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Karissa Tang is a 17-year-old in California who got curious about the impact of AI on typical teen jobs like cashiers and fast food counter workers. She embarked on an ambitious economic research project and shares her findings with us.<\/p>\n<p>Related episodes:\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/04\/nx-s1-5527315\/how-much-is-ai-actually-affecting-the-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/12\/08\/1197958787\/ai-jobs-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI creates, transforms and destroys&#8230; jobs<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/20\/1197963204\/youth-employment-child-labor-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When does youth employment become child labor?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>. Fact-checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>. Music by <a href=\"https:\/\/dropelectric.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drop Electric<\/a>. Find us: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/planetmoney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman scans groceries at a self service checkout in a supermarket. Matthew Horwood\/Getty Images hide caption toggle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-399511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}