Running the numbers on deportation, interest rates and math
by Wailin Wong from NPR: Planet Money on (#6TYX9)
Why haven't American 8th graders' math scores recovered? Does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actually have the resources to make all the deportations Trump's promised? And what's the path for interest rates in the Trump economy? All that on Indicators of the Week.
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