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December ends 2011 employment story on good note
Friday, January 6, 2012
The December jobs report showed that 200,000 new jobs were created in the month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5, the lowest rate since February 2009.
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Shutdown averted, Congress weighs stimulus
Friday, December 16, 2011
Now that Congress has averted a government shutdown, it takes up the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits
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EU RIP? Europe deal fractures union
Friday, December 9, 2011
A new fiscal pact leaves the U.K. and three other nations out in the cold, as European leaders scramble to convince investors that they have diffused the debt bomb at the European summit in Brussels
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Working moms don't always have it easy
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Checking the Marketplace's Daily Pulse, our offbeat take on the health of the U.S. economy.
There's word today that just over half of working mo...
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Euro crisis: A view from London to Los Angeles
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The programme I present, Business Daily, is broadcast on the BBC's World Service and has a world agenda. But recently we've spent a lot of time...
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A day in the life at Marketplace
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Ever wonder what it takes to put together a day's worth of programming at Marketplace? Check out this behind-the-scenes video that captures "A da...
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Europe Nears Crisis: Weekend at Bernie's Redux
Friday, October 21, 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have moved the goal post, again. Although they previously promised that Sund...
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Jill Schlesinger: Retail therapy? Americans spend more but feel worse
Friday, October 14, 2011
My first boss once said to me: "Watch what they do and ignore what they say." He was referring to consumers, who despite telling pollsters that t...
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Get on the bus with Kai Ryssdal
Monday, October 10, 2011
The Breakdown: What's working in the job market from Marketplace on Vimeo.
Last week Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and a small team rode the bus ...
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Reality TV show to follow medical marijuana dispensary
Friday, October 7, 2011
Medical marijuana brings in as much as $1.3 billion in sales in California. And it may soon generate revenue for the entertainment industry.
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U.S. unemployment picture at a glance: August, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
The U.S. job situation in August is a carbon copy of July (which was revised today to 85,000 new jobs instead of the previously reported 117,000)...
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It's official: Pittsburgh is the most liveable city in the U.S.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Economist Intelligence Unit has released its 2011 Liveability Ranking and Overview, and the Steel City tops the U.S. list, beating out Los An...
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When do you buy organic? When do experts?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I never know when it makes sense to shell out extra money for organic foods. It's one of the reasons I started working on the story for Marketpla...
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It's official: Pittsburgh is the most liveable city in the U.S.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Economist Intelligence Unit has released its 2011 Liveability Ranking and Overview, and the Steel City tops the U.S. list, beating out Los An...
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A pack of cigarettes in New York City now costs $11
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Where there's smoke, there's taxes -- especially for New Yorkers. In an emergency budget move officials say will generate $440 million in revenue,...
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California Gov. Brown talks taxes, cuts and economic fairness
I have a non-political observation to make. In another part of this interview not shown here, Governor Brown identified that he could see 50 miles...
ijblack | May 24, 2012
Times-Picayune to cut back jobs and production schedule
As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...
BostonPeng | May 24, 2012
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
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First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012
