Marketplace for Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Segments From This Episode

• Congress keeps pizza and french fries on school lunch menus

  by Sarah Gardner

  Companies that sell frozen pizzas and french fries to schools convinced Congress to squash stricter school lunch standards proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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• Fixing our financial system would leave 100% of us better off

  by Reihan Salam

  Join us for a week long commentary series asking this question: If the 1% had less, would the 99% be better off? We'll hear from economists, academics, and the public.

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• Fannie, Freddie executive pay and the STOCK Act

  by Kai Ryssdal

  The House Financial Services Committee voted to stop the multimillion dollar bonuses Fannie and Freddie executive have been getting. And the STOCK Act is introduced in the Senate.

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• Technology’s haves and have nots

  by Steve Henn

  Many small businesses are still on the wrong side of the Digital Divide

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• EU and NBA face similar plight

  by David Gura

  The European debt crisis and the National Basketball Association lockout are being played in vastly different arenas, but the game is pretty much the same.

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• Occupy’s pivotal moment

  by Kai Ryssdal

  New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked Occupy Wall Street protesters out of their home base of Zuccotti Park last night. And what happens next could be very important.

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• The complexities of famine

  by Scott Tong

  In East Africa, it takes more than a drought to cause devastating famine.

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