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Mar 14, 2014

Marketplace for Friday, March 14, 2014

After two years in the making, the proposed Gainful Employment Rule is out. Career colleges (mainly for-profits), whose students graduate with dim job prospects and too much debt, will find their revenue streams cut off . Also: Ghanain oil, Baton Rouge, and a weekly wrap of this week’s news.

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Segments From This Episode

‘Big Men’ filmmaker chronicles oil boom in Ghana
by Kai Ryssdal
Rachel Boynton follows a Texan oil company and Ghanaian government officials as they scramble to profit from newly discovered oil wells off the coast in her new documentary, "Big Men."
Middle class families fight over East Baton Rouge schools
by Noel King
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Some residents want to leave a struggling public school system by incorporating a new town, St. George.
A raft of weak economic data out of China
by Rob Schmitz
Industrial output, fixed asset investment, retail sales, you name it: all slipped the first two months of the year, defying expectations. But we've seen this before.
That extra hour of daylight finally comes in handy
by Michelle Philippe
Marketplace Datebook for the week of March 17, 2014
The 5 second rule actually works
by Kai Ryssdal
In which science completely validates conventional wisdom.
For-profit colleges and concerns over ‘gainful employment’
by Amy Scott
A look at the numbers behind the Gainful Employment Rule and its potential impact on the industry.
Weekly Wrap: Hurray for Washington?
by Kai Ryssdal
Nela Richardson and Sudeep Reddy talk about what happened this week, economy-wise, and why.

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Marketplace for Friday, March 14, 2014

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Segments From This Episode

‘Big Men’ filmmaker chronicles oil boom in Ghana

Middle class families fight over East Baton Rouge schools

A raft of weak economic data out of China

That extra hour of daylight finally comes in handy

The 5 second rule actually works

For-profit colleges and concerns over ‘gainful employment’

Weekly Wrap: Hurray for Washington?

Music from the episode