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• Gridlock Eraser. Budget Swallower. Debt Silencer.

  by Chris Roberson

  What if the super committee had actual superpowers, like in a comic book?

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• What’s behind the new measure of poverty?

  by David Brancaccio

  Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio discusses the Census Bureau's new nuanced measurement of poverty and how it gives us a better understanding of who's poor.

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• A warning about black licorice

  by Kai Ryssdal

  This final note today, in which I stand up for what really counts as licorice and what doesn't. It comes by way of an FDA report that adults over…

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• Napa wineries pitch in to house workers

  by Jeff Tyler

  Wine growers in Napa, Calif., are clubbing together to provide some of the best farm worker housing in the country — and finding it makes good business sense.

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• Soda advertising bubbling up

  by David Gura

  Soda marketers are pushing more soda ads online and on TV with blacks and Hispanics being major targets, according to a report form the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

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• Oil exec gets severance payout — for staying

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  As Occupy Wall Street protests bemoan executive pay, Nabors Industries' chairman gives up CEO role and gets $100 million severance-like payment.

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• MF Global files for bankruptcy

  by Marketplace Staff

  The firm's failure shows what happens when a company is small enough to fail. It also stands as a warning about the effects of overexposure to European debt.

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• Halloween disrupted by East Coast snowstorm

  by Marketplace Staff

  The surprise snowstorm this weekend cut power to a number of towns on the East Coast, pushing many to decide to postpone Halloween festivities out of fear for safety. One Connecticut couple describes the scene in their town.

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