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  • Recently, the town of Tuscumbia, Mo., celebrated the completion of a two-lane bridge. The nearly $9 million-dollar structure has been billed as the first completed project funded by the stimulus bill. Some there say it's bloated government spending. But the locals seem to like it. David Weinberg reports.

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  • Underwriters Laboratories, the group that certifies the safety of many products, has designed a new training program for electricians who install solar panels. Leoneda Inge reports.

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  • Groupon usually focuses its offer on local small businesses, but yesterday launched their first deal with a big brand. Marketplace's Stacey Vanek Smith looks into whether this is a positive or negative step on the popular deals website.

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  • Visitors of Yellowstone National Park may rush off to the popular park to get away and reconnect with nature. But the cars pack the popular park in the summertime, and may remind you of rush hour in the city.

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  • Kai Ryssdal talks with Leigh Gallagher from Fortune and Mike Mandel from Visible Economy about the week on Wall Street and beyond.

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  • Ron Lieber of the New York Times talks with Tess Vigeland about a new program from MasterCard that will and set controls on your credit or debit spending, and cut you off when you disregard your own budget.

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  • Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, talks with Bill Radke about why he says the gloom over this week's economic data is a little overdone.

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  • A new report from Fidelity Investments says more Americans are dipping into their 401(K)s and other similar funds. Jill Schlesinger, editor-at-large at CBS MoneyWatch, talks with Steve Chiotakis about why a record number of people are making hardship withdrawals.

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  • President Obama still has yet to nominate anyone to head the new post of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But one group is pushing for Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to be nominated and has come up with a song and video for her. Rapper Ryan Anthony Lumas talks with Steve Chiotakis about the song.

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  • Mike Lane wanted to make sure his girls learned the value of work and money early on — so he made them landlords of a treehouse in the backyard. Marketplace's Josh Rogosin pays them a visit.

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