Alisa Roth

The Bard Prison Initiative offers higher education to inmates.

The minimum wage isn't high enough to attract unemployed locals.

In "Little Aleppo" there is a spirit of neighborliness between Turks and Syrians.

About half a million Syrians have fled their country's violent conflict and settled in Turkey. Many are grateful to be taken in but also fearful about being kicked out.

Turkey has welcomed half a million Syrian refugees, but some Turks fear the newcomers may be putting a strain on Turkey's infrastructure and economy.

Marketplace's Alisa Roth has reactions from the protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park after a potential crisis for Occupy Wall Street was averted.

Earnings from Wall Street banks are beginning to trickle in, with JP Morgan the first to report. But are all banks created equal?

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is heading to Paris with a message to European leaders about how to solve the economic crisis.

The New York state comptroller is predicting that the financial world of New York could lose as many as 10,000 securities industry jobs by the end of 2012.

The Obama administration is hoping to get at least a trillion dollars worth of foreign investment in the next five years, but it might prove hard to lure overseas investors.