Financial expert Rachel Schneider and economics professor Jonathan Morduch report on how low to moderate income families moderate money in their book everybody lies big data, new data, and what the internet reveals about who we really are the financial dirari diraries host rachel, ever book and story has a collaboration story. I am curious how you two met . This is really an arranged d marriage. The thunder and Ford Foundation wanted to represent the work jonathan had done internationally. The book inspired many people but one question it sparked is why dont we have the same level of intuition and knowledge about what is happening in peoples Financial Lives in the u. S. . We have a ton of data. The funders wanted to do that work here. But i think they knew and jonathan knew there should be a local partner. So i have always described myself as the local color in this project. That was my original role. Host just tell us a little bit about how you were the local color. Guest i work with
We begin with joe. Whats going on there joe . Well, things appear normal neil. You take a look behind me. You can see some of the traffic moving on the main streets here in mount airy. The road crews have done a good job of clearing things out along with the warming sun. But, this has already been a costly storm. One person has died from the storm in the state of North Carolina. That person was in hertford, county and you can see where the trouble lies here. Some of the water that has been pushed off of the roadways or is just melting from all of the snow and sleet is going to cause big problems, thats according to the governor here in North Carolina. He says the worst may be yet to come because of the subfreezing temperatures that were going to see here in the next few days. That could lead to widespread Power Outages if ice forms on power lines and trees. So far, the state troopers have gotten more than 2,000 calls for help, but that number could go through the roof if the ice freeze
DAVIDSON COUNTY – Two people in Davidson County have been accused of having sex with children, and a third is accused of duplicating child pornography, according to law enforcement.