Segments From This Episode

• Inside West Virginia’s overwhelmed foster care system

  by Roxy Todd

  

  About 85% of the children in state custody have a parent who struggles with substance use disorder. The system is straining to care for them.

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• How bowling shoes help explain the repo market

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  It’s a wonky subject, but important. Arcades, power grids and plumbing systems also help make sense of it.

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• In the NBA vs. China battle, business could suffer

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andy Uhler

  

  Billions of dollars in revenue is at stake for the NBA.

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• Here’s what a “good economy” means to these shoppers

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Consumers appear confident and willing to spend now, but they’re worried about the future and haunted by memories of the Great Recession.

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• New rule could hurt home appraisal business

  by Amy Scott

  

  Some 40% of home sales may no longer require appraisals.

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