Segments From This Episode

• Opioid epidemic inspires startup to help mothers with drug addiction

  by Blake Farmer

  

  Babies born addicted to opioids require expensive hospital stays. One Tennessee company is trying to cut those costs.

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• UK farms replace EU migrants with machines

  

  With fewer EU migrants to take low-paid farm jobs, UK farmers look to automation.

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• Inside the vetting process for Trump’s nominees

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  Ethics officials are concerned at the pace of confirmation hearings.

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• Twitter is struggling to turn relevance into revenue

  by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

  

  Despite it being the President-elect's main form of communication

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• The Limited offers another sign that some retail stores are out of fashion

  by Sally Herships

  The Limited has reached the end of the  brick and mortar road. The once popular women’s clothing chain and familiar mall tenant is on its way out. While it will be maintaining its online presence, for now, the company confirmed that it’s closing all of its stores across the country. And other big retailers, Aeropostale, Macys […]

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• More car makers announce billions of dollars in US investment: is this the Trump effect?

  by Jed Kim

  Fiat Chrysler has announced it’ll invest about $1 billion to improve two of its plants in the U.S. It’ll bring 2,000 jobs as well. This comes after news of other automakers changing their operating plans , like Ford canceling a factory in Mexico and investing in a Michigan plant. Of course, hanging over all of […]

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• My Economy: What it’s like to be the parent of a disabled child

  by Robert Garrova and Bridget Bodnar

  

  Margaret Enos of Pennsylvania says it’s a full-time job.

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