How much money would it take to feel financially secure?
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Sign up today at bus.npr. org. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. We talk about money all the time in this country. The price of groceries, the cost of housing, whether the rich pay their fair share. But when it comes to our own money.
That's a different story. We don't really talk about how much we make or owe or the help we get from our parents. My guest today, Mona Chalabi, spent five years having those conversations. For her new book, Tin Lives. How what we have shapes who we are. She followed ten Americans across the income spectrum.
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