
In this episode of The Indicator from Planet Money, Darian Woods, Wailin Wong, and Nick Fountain discuss three indicators of the week. The first indicator is 2.5%, the average amount wages have changed following pay transparency laws. The second indicator is $4 an hour, which is what some participants in a study were paid to use Facebook and Instagram less, a study that helped Meta in an antitrust lawsuit. The third indicator is 16.6%, the percentage increase in the price of steak over the last year, which is partially due to the screw worm fly and efforts to combat it.
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