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    Aug 19, 2016

    Marketplace Weekend for August, Friday 19th

    On this episode of Marketplace Weekend, Molly Wood talks with Marketplace’s Andy Uhler, and the Los Angeles Times’ deputy business editor Dan Beucke tell us what they’re bullish and bearish on. We hear from a low-wage worker on how she makes ends meet. Vox’s David Roberts talks with Molly about the future of autonomous trucks and what that might mean for the trucking industry. Listeners call in about the ways money changed their communities, and journalist Susie Cagle explains the gentrification in Oakland, California. Marketplace’s Amy Scott has the story of two women dealing with the welfare system from Marketplace’s podcast The Uncertain Hour, and Molly talks with professor Zeynep Tufekci about how social media has become an integral part of political campaigns.

    If the future of trucking is automated, what happens to truck drivers' jobs?
    If the future of trucking is automated, what happens to truck drivers' jobs?
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    On this episode of Marketplace Weekend, Molly Wood talks with Marketplace’s Andy Uhler, and the Los Angeles Times’ deputy business editor Dan Beucke tell us what they’re bullish and bearish on. We hear from a low-wage worker on how she makes ends meet. Vox’s David Roberts talks with Molly about the future of autonomous trucks and what that might mean for the trucking industry. Listeners call in about the ways money changed their communities, and journalist Susie Cagle explains the gentrification in Oakland, California. Marketplace’s Amy Scott has the story of two women dealing with the welfare system from Marketplace’s podcast The Uncertain Hour, and Molly talks with professor Zeynep Tufekci about how social media has become an integral part of political campaigns.

    Marketplace Weekend for August, Friday 19th