Should we care about political polls?

Every election season, headlines speculate about which political polls got it right and how others got it so wrong. A listener called in to ask if they even matter. We’ll get into it and answer  questions about whether the 2017 tax cuts set us up for inflation and state lawmakers’ surprisingly low wages. Plus, how are individual shareholders affected when companies like Twitter go from public to private?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Reporting on Asian Americans’ views is a challenge even as polls evolve” from Pew Research Center

• • “Why it’s so hard to agree on the causes of inflation” from Marketplace

• • “Conservatives rally behind pay raise for Nebraska lawmakers” from AP News

• • “Comparison of state legislative salaries” from Ballotpedia

• • “Low Pay In State Legislatures Means Some Can’t Afford The Job” from NPR

• • “Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal” from CNN Business

• • “How do I vote at a corporate election?” from Investor.gov

• • “Few individual investors participate in shareholder voting. Here’s how that may be changing” from CNBC

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