05/04/2017: The surprise bills that sometimes come with a free medical visit

Segments From This Episode

• Medicare’s free wellness visits sound great, but in practice, there are challenges

  by Dan Gorenstein

  

  They're meant to help doctors identify potential problems early on. But what's the outcome?

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• The asset management industry has a diversity problem

  by David Brancaccio

  

  A new study shows a women and minorities are largely excluded, managing just 1.1 percent of total assets.

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• This new real estate site is aimed at first-time buyers

  by Ryan Kailath

  The real estate site Zillow has launched a new tool aimed at first-time home buyers on realestate.com. It features a calculator that adds up the expenses of owning a home, like property taxes and utilities — the kind of things that new buyers don’t always expect or budget for. It’s designed to help ease the […]

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• 05/04/2017: Why having an incompetent waiter can be a sign of a strong economy

  by David Brancaccio

  A couple of factors that may negatively affect the April jobs report: retail-store shuttering and a slowdown in health care hiring. But Diane Swonk from DS Economics argues the economy may actually be chugging along fine, in part due to this simple metric: how our service is behind the counter. Next, we'll look at the details behind a White House executive order on religion that President Trump is expected to sign today. According to the order, tax-exempt religious groups may have more freedom to participate in politics. And finally, we'll talk about the internship market for college students and then examine the asset management industry's problem with diversity.

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• Paid interns are averaging $3,000 a month

  by Reema Khrais

  It’s high time for students to start thinking about that summer internship — and many should get lucky landing one since internships are up for the first time in years, according to the head of the research division for the National Association of Colleges and Employers. It’s hard to know how many interns work for […]

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