Segments From This Episode

• Yuck: A fourth-grader’s undercover look at school lunch

  by David Brancaccio

  In the fall of 2011, fourth-grader Zachary Maxwell set out to show his parents and the world his less-than-appetizing lunch tray reality.

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• Sequester Pentagon cuts start to bite

  The Pentagon starts furloughing 650,000 civilian employees next week.

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• Who’s afraid of 5 percent mortgage rates?

  by Gigi Douban

  Do fast-rising interest rates threaten the growing recovery in housing? Experts say prices are still low enough to attract buyers.

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• U.S. suspends Bangladesh trade benefits

  by Mahfuz Sadique

  The U.S. is suspending its trade benefits for Bangladesh. The Obama administration said the country has not moved quickly enough to address workplace safety following an eight-story factory collapse that killed over 1,000 workers.

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• Safety Net Confessionals: My get-out-of-jail-free card

  by Krissy Clark

  Listener Kurt Deutscher, a 49-year-old web developer who grew up in a low-income family in Portland, Oregon, discusses his economic safety net, which came in the form of a unique graduation gift.

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• PODCAST: The gross truth of school lunch

  by David Brancaccio

  Who's afraid of a 5 percent mortgage rate? A fourth-grader takes an undercover look at school lunches. And a 650,000 person sequester furlough.

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• Interested in running the Fed? Any one?

  by David Brancaccio

  Now that President Obama has suggested publicly that Ben Bernanke might not stay on at the Federal Reserve past January, the quest is on for replacements.

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• Google gets into gaming

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  Google is reportedly developing a game console and a wristwatch. The reason for all the hardware is all about the software.

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