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  • Chris Johnson and Lindsey Galbraith
    Courtesy Lindsey Galbraith

    When Lindsey Galbraith’s marriage ended over financial infidelity, she swore she would never mix money and relationships again. Then she met someone new.

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  • Apr 29, 2021

    A cruel disease

    Geetha Balagopal keeps pictures of her daughter Priya on display in her office.
    Reema Khrais/Marketplace

    After a young woman dies by suicide, Reema sets out to understand why money was on her mind shortly before her death.

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  • Apr 22, 2021

    Pretty hurts

    Esther Calixte-Bea
    Courtesy: Esther Calixte-Bea

    Esther Calixte-Bea spent hundreds of dollars a month trying to keep her body hair under control, until she finally hit a breaking point.

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  • The marriage penalty
    Maria Ponomariova/Getty Images

    After spending years fighting to get disability benefits, Amber was finally approved. But she and her wife, Diana, didn’t realize they had entered a complicated, arcane system where health care might cost them their marriage.

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  • Kiara Aceves posing with some of the products she sold for Arbonne, a multilevel marketing company.
    Courtesy: Kiara Aceves

    The U.S. had more than 16 million MLM sellers in 2019, and most of them will likely end up breaking even or losing money. But Kiara quickly became the exception to the rule — or at least, that’s what she thought.

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  • Apr 1, 2021

    A lifelong scam

    Axton Betz-Hamilton and her parents in 2012.
    Courtesy: Axton Betz-Hamilton

    Axton Betz-Hamilton spent 20 years trying to track down an identity thief that wreaked havoc on her family, only to discover the truth was uglier than she’d imagined.

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  • This Is Uncomfortable returns October 6!

    “This Is Uncomfortable” is back for season four.

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  • Mar 24, 2021

    My boss is an app

    Julia Soler loads up her minivan with groceries before her shift doing gig work with Amazon Flex.
    Stephanie Hughes/Marketplace

    The gig-app workforce has arrived at our doorstep. But Silicon Valley’s innovations in hiring are only the latest round of this long-running battle over what “employment” means in the American economy.

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  • Mar 17, 2021

    Inside baseball

    Anthony Shew (right) fist bumps fellow pitcher Adam Wainwright while playing for the minor league Springfield Cardinals. As a minor league player, Shew isn't subject to federal minimum wage and overtime requirements.
    Courtesy: Anthony Shew

    In minor league baseball, athletes train, suit up and play for wages that would be illegal in most sectors.

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  • Crowds of people stand in the street, waiting to identify bodies of immigrant workers following the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City, March 25, 1911.
    Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    After Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, he took both companies to court — the subcontractor he worked for, the “little boss,” and its client, the “big boss,” Koch Foods.

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