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Your refund is waiting
Tess Vigeland | Oct 27, 2005The IRS is sitting on $73 million in unclaimed tax refunds. Tess Vigeland looks at what the agency is doing to get that money where it belongs.
Diversity is good business
Hilary Wicai | Oct 27, 2005A new study from the Society for Human Resource Management shows diversity in the workplace does more than promote social harmony. Hillary Wicai reports.
Is the NYSE listing to animal activists?
Stephen Beard | Oct 27, 2005A Senate committee has been hearing allegations that the NYSE caved in to threats from animal rights activists when it postponed listing a British medical company. Stephen Beard reports.
Hacking at the social safety net?
Scott Tong | Oct 26, 2005Today, Chair Bill Thomas led the House Committee on Ways and Means in its costcutting efforts. Just weeks after the president promised to take on poverty, critics say vital programs are on the block. Scott Tong reports.
Wal-Mart's unsettling benefits memo
| Oct 26, 2005WalMart's executive vice president for benefits wrote a 27-page memo that hit the pages of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/business/26walmart.ready.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130361080-4Xxx1rOuhNi2oTHy6OgB1w">today's NY Times</a>. It lays out the discounter's plan to seize the high ground in the employee benefits war. Helen Palmer reports.
Women in "the pit"
Amy Scott | Oct 26, 2005In the commodities markets, less than 2 percent of the brokers at the New York Board of Trade are women. But the spitting and hollering may not last forever. Amy Scott reports.
John Edwards heads to Wall Street
| Oct 26, 2005The former vice presidential candidate says he'll be an advisor to a private equity group here. Writer and commentator Amity Shlaes says the move makes sense — for Edwards, and a whole lot of other people, too.
Rock, real estate and Alan Greenspan
| Oct 26, 2005The sound of the rock and roll underground recently is defined by two genres: a psychedelic folk revival and what the kids call electroclash. Why this, and why now? Ian Svenonius explains.
Writing checks for the NY Yankees
Kai Ryssdal | Oct 26, 2005The Yanks get criticized (not unjustly) for outspending the other major league baseball teams. Host Kai Ryssdal talks to Jean Afterman; she helps George Steinbrenner decide how to spend the team's millions.
Broadway is murder
| Oct 26, 2005The woman behind Broadway's "The Perfect Crime" stars, takes tickets, and sweeps floors at her theater. Is this mad scramble what it takes to compete with the Disneys and Comcasts of Broadway?
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