Katie Hood

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592 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 9 Sep

Katie Hood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Planet Money · Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

You're fifty four. matched

Fifty four. matched

Fifty four and a half. matched

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Sorry, Doug. matched

At six months. matched

Uh so you're like you're out at sixty-five? matched

You're retiring? matched

Seventy, look at you. matched

You're okay. matched

Good to know Olivia. matched

We called up economist Olivia S. matched

Mitchell for a counterpoint. matched

Olivia started out as a labor economist, now focuses more on things like pensions and retirement at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. matched

And as an economist, Olivia fundamentally rejects the assertion that older workers are taking jobs away from younger workers. matched

This is known as the lump of labor fallacy, which we matched

we've covered on Planet Money before, the lump of labor fallacy is the mistaken belief that there's a fixed amount of work to be done in an economy, like one big lump of jobs that we all fight over and have to share. matched

And the reality is that more people working create more jobs and create more demand for labor. matched

I mean, I think a good example is like when women entered the labor force. matched

It's not like we took all the men's jobs and now there weren't enough jobs for men. matched

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