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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • Investigators found rehab participants doing everything from picking cotton in Georgia to doing doing construction on high rises in the San Francisco Bay Area, all with no or little pay.
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    An investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting shows workers in rehab programs often don’t get paid. Plus, global joblessness is rising 10 times faster than during the Great Recession. And, how pay cuts have helped save jobs.

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  • A waiter serves drinks to diners in the Soho area of London.
    AFP

    The U.K.’s $2.5 billion “kick-start scheme” to create more jobs for young people after the pandemic. The latest on how the coronavirus is squeezing jobs in China. The CEO of Loon on providing internet to rural Kenya using balloons.

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  • The biggest share of the movers was young people ages 18 to 29.
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    How COVID-19 is changing where people live. Will we see a rebound in the demand for labor after declines in the spring? Job openings numbers for May are out today. And, how the U.K. has kept its unemployment rate down.

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  • Larger companies initially took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program, which was intended to offer forgivable loans to smaller businesses.
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    The PPP data raises questions, again, about whether aid helped well-off businesses rather than those most in need. Extended federal unemployment benefits are coming to an end. And, why it matters that carbon dioxide is currently in short supply.

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  • TikTok said it couldn't run its services under the new law for Hong Kong.
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    TikTok has said it will withdraw from Hong Kong after China imposed a new security law on the city. Also, whether the U.K. furlough scheme for workers has saved millions of jobs or just delayed the inevitable.

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  • Food delivery is one area where business has been up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Uber is buying food-delivery service Postmates. Plus, an early look at why market futures were up all morning. And, how does the cancellation of minor league baseball this year affect the towns where teams play?

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  • Berkshire Hathaway Energy's acquisition of Dominion Energy's natural gas storage and transmission business is valued at close to $10 billion.
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    Berkshire Hathaway Energy has announced it will acquire Dominion Energy’s natural gas transmission and storage business. The Louvre Museum in Paris is reopening. And, is a tax on the meat industry and its carbon emissions coming soon?

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  • Lines form outside the Louvre as it reopens. But the museum says it needs foreign visitors.
    Reuters

    Visitors have been welcomed back to Paris’ Louvre Museum for the first time since March. Plus, the biggest shake-up in U.K. accounting in decades. And, two years since the U.S.-China trade war began, where things stand now.

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  • Virginia Ali, co-owner of Ben's Chili Bowl, one of the many black owned business on U Street, during the COVID-19 outbreak June 15, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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    Change is in the air for Native American representation in both the arts as well as the football field. Also, we examine how something called forced arbitration can have a negative impact on Black and brown workers. 

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  • Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
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    The U.K. relaxes some of its COVID-19 travel restrictions. Also, minimum wage increases have already started in some places despite the pandemic. We also talk to psychotherapist and author Megan Devine about the ties that bind grief to the economy.

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