In August 2025, Erica Groshen, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was fired by President Trump. So she did what any newly unemployed person would do: she applied for…
Catherine Ann Edwards has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Indicator from Planet Money, Marketplace Morning Report. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
“I mean, can you imagine you have the same job and the same wage and the same salary and you both get laid off on the same day and they get four times the unemployment as you? Can you imagine if social security look like that?”
— Catherine Ann Edwards, on state-by-state benefit disparities
“You don't have to like unemployed people. In fact, go on hating them. This is just about a more efficient productive economy.”
— Catherine Ann Edwards, reframing UI as an economic efficiency tool
“The economy is slowly slowing down. Most of the job growth we've seen over the last year came from services that do not reflect economic strength, but rather population, things like healthcare and education services and many of our more cyclical sectors are down for the year. That's not a good sign.”
— Catherine Ann Edwards
In August 2025, Erica Groshen, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was fired by President Trump. So she did what any newly unemployed person would do: she applied for…
The episode opens with a concrete possibility: a federal government shutdown could begin as soon as Saturday, driven by a dispute over funding and reform for the Department of Homeland Security,…
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