{"podcast":{"title":"Optimist Economy","slug":"optimist-economy-7257068","podcast_index_feed_id":7257068,"rss_url":"https://publicfeeds.net/f/14811/feed-rss.xml","website_url":"https://optimisteconomy.com/","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/14811/images/160bea8c-1709-420c-9302-11462f46d1b6/20250316_120343_934a657c8303c901ea17b8b7452ae07d.png","author":"Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi","episode_count":62,"summary":"Optimist Economy is the anti-doomscroll economics podcast. Work rules, tax fairness, healthcare, housing costs, retirement security — the economic forces shaping American life have real problems. But also real solutions. Each week, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards and editor Robin Rauzi break down one problem and solution with data, history, humor, and a belief that tools to build a better economy exist. We just haven't tried them. New episodes on Tuesdays. ✨ Support the podcast at: optimisteconomy.com ✨ Ask questions or share your economic worries with us at: optimist.economy@gmail.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T18:17:17.071935+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068"},"episode":{"title":"The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented","slug":"the-cash-for-kids-study-misread-and-misrepresented","published_at":"2025-09-16T10:10:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-cash-for-kids-study-misread-and-misrepresented","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/optimisteconomy/2216371","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dovetail.prxu.org/14811/78bad4ec-eb72-4b7d-93ce-83df29382f28/4b760e16-0904-4696-a47f-d25e0ade5d7e.mp3","summary":"You might have heard recently that a years-long poverty study “found” that giving $333 monthly to kids with poor parents didn’t make a difference. But here's why that’s the wrong takeaway: The \"Baby's First Years\" study wasn't designed to test cash payments. It is multi-year, ongoing scientific research into how poverty affects child development. Researchers found \"selective impacts on preschoolers' brain activity with possibly different impacts across brain frequency bands\" — which roughly translates to \"this is incredibly complicated and we're still figuring it out,\" not \"money is useless.\" And yet this rigorous research got reduced to a talking point amid an ongoing policy debate on child tax credits and what it means to lift kids out of poverty.","meta_description":"You might have heard recently that a years-long poverty study “found” that giving $333 monthly to kids with poor parents didn’t make a difference. But her…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2987,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/optimist-economy-7257068/episodes/the-cash-for-kids-study-misread-and-misrepresented/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimist-economy-7257068/the-cash-for-kids-study-misread-and-misrepresented.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}