Segments From This Episode

• Weekly Wrap: A sense of "global disenfranchisement"

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Leigh Gallagher of Fortune and Felix Salmon of Fusion join Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal for this week's edition of the Weekly Wrap.

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• Flooding hits a handful of crucial businesses in one small North Carolina town

  by Marketplace Contributor

  

  In rural communities, a grocery or restaurant can be a lifeline, especially for low income people who have limited transportation options.

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• Puerto Ricans migrate to Florida for one thing: jobs

  by Andy Uhler

  

  As the Puerto Rican economy struggles, a thousand families migrate to Florida every month.

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• Washington, D.C. has figured out a way around money bail

  

  Using computer algorithms, DC courts evaluate flight risk and other factors.

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• Survey says both sides need to play nicer

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  In a Colby College/Boston Globe survey, nine out of 10 people called for more civility in the election.

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• Here’s why some of you couldn’t get on Twitter today

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  Twitter, Spotify, and PayPal weren't actually the target of a DDoS attack today.

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• Big tobacco could get bigger

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  British American Tobacco's $47 billion bid to take over Reynolds American signals the U.S. cigarette market is still very profitable.

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