05/03/05
Marketplace AM for May 3, 2005
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Donate your Social Security check
May 3, 2005
President Bush takes his ideas for Social Security reform to Mississippi today. But here's an idea you haven't heard from the President - donating Social Security checks. Entrepreneur Paul Merage is pushing that one. Merage invented hot-pockets, those microwaveable sandwiches. He sold his company for a couple billion dollars and, as Sarah Gardner reports, he's cooked up a charity to inspire the nation's seniors.
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AIDS in India
May 3, 2005
There's a number that AIDS activists keep an eye on when they're looking at how quickly the disease is spreading in a given country. A one percent infection rate is generally considered a tipping point. As Marketplace's Julie Small reports, India is almost there.
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