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A listener writes from Austin, Texas:

I have such an indicator for you, 5. That is the number of live or dead cockroaches that I have seen in my workplace in the past 2 weeks. This is compared to 0, the amount I saw in the year before. This all just so happens to coincide with the announcement my company made about reducing to contract janitorial services by 30 percent to save money.