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Race on your resume: An invitation for discrimination?
Barbara Bogaev | Apr 5, 2013From the organizations you're a member of to your educational background to something as simple as your name -- advertising your ethnicity, sexuality, religion or gender on your resume can affect the hiring process.
Is your office a zoo? Get down to monkey business
Katie Prescott | Apr 5, 2013Ever look at your work colleagues and think they're all behaving like monkeys? Believe it or not, some businesses are finding inspiration in the world of chimps and other primates -- and taking what they learn back to the boardroom.
President Obama looks to reduce Social Security cost of living increases with 'chained CPI'
Dan Gorenstein | Apr 5, 2013President Obama's new budget proposal -- which will be formally unveiled next week -- includes a move to slow payments to Social Security.
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Calling all personal finance poets
Marketplace Money Staff | Apr 5, 2013April is National Poetry Month -- and also the month when most of us are scrambling to get our taxes filed. Send us your poems about taxes and Uncle Sam for a chance to have them read on the air.
Unemployment falls to 7.6%, 88,000 jobs added
Jeremy Hobson | Apr 5, 2013The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the economy added 88,000 jobs last month, below analyst expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent.
Larry Summers: Economic downturn will leave 'permanent scar'
Jeremy Hobson | Apr 5, 2013Larry Summers discusses the state of the economic recovery, why the stock market is booming, and what's ahead in the coming months.
Burning paper iPhones: Transferring wealth to the afterlife in China
Rob Schmitz | Apr 5, 2013The Chinese are celebrating the annual tomb sweeping holiday, a day when people sweep the gravestones of their ancestors and burn money, paper villas, and cardboard consumer products in the belief that it'll comfort deceased loved ones.
Brazil looks to attract foreign engineers, doctors to boost economy
Jeremy Hobson | Apr 5, 2013Stephen Keppel, economic editor at Univision News, joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to explain how Brazil is working to attract foreign skilled workers from around the world.
China tackles a new outbreak of bird flu
Rob Schmitz | Apr 5, 2013Officials in China announced today that a sixth person has died from a new strain of bird flu. 14 people near Shanghai have been infected, and today authorities there decided to close all of the city's poultry markets.
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Ray Kurzweil on the surprising simplicity of the human brain
David Brancaccio | Apr 5, 2013Legendary inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil shares his thoughts on the way humans and technology are becoming more intertwined and an irony of the human mind.
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