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Your Uncommon Economic Indicators
The Brian Lehrer Show's online and on air collaborative project on the economy
The Brian Lehrer Show wants you to tell us your story, or report on what you see, for this online project. Together, we are building a website of your local stories of economic activity in the New York City area — jobs lost or found, stores opening or closing, good deals on rent, whatever you find.
We want to tell this complex story with the help of your calls, photographs, video and writing. What matters is that we get YOUR stories about the economy from the places you are familiar with. We will choose submissions to air on the show each week so our listeners can hear what you have noticed as well.
Call in your story: 1-800-543-2543 or use the form below to write up your report.
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Good Uncommon-Economic-Indicators Morning!
October 05, 2009
Brian Lehrer on Good Morning America
The Brian Lehrer Show’s listener-reporter collaboration, Your Uncommon Economic Indicators, has certainly helped shape how we view the recent recession.
As Brian told the host of Good Morning America on Sunday, the reporting he has done with his audience shows the effects of the economic crisis from a different vantage point, that of the individual.
Contributors to our project write in about how the falling economy has affected their daycare, lawn care, their commute and their walk down the street. From the ground they see new art, a troubled advertising industry and unsold condos. At the workplace they see more brown bag lunches and get invitations to sell their gold. Many have changed their careers or their grocery spending habits and some have found new vacation spots and take library books to local beaches.
As people continue to send in evidence about how consumers are still cautious and the effects of unemployment remain far reaching, Brian says with confidence, “We’re not out of this yet!” Until the listeners of WNYC tell us differently, Your Uncommon Economic Indicators will be here to offer that collective view of how we’re all doing in this recession.
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