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Transcript: Opening of School Boosts Economy - Sort of
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- September 5, 1995
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Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer figure that if each kid returning
to school today buys pencils, crayons, eraser, lunch box, and a cigar
box to carry supplies in, the economy is $2.3 billion richer.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: Can you put a name to that gnawing feeling
in the pit of your stomach, that feeling unique to the first day of
school, that feeling that only reappears in nightmares?
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Now, when you're 12 years old or 11 years old,