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• Investors have purchased bonds to lend a $500 million to fund vaccine programs in developing countries

  Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab has more.

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• Americans spent 1.4% more in September than August, driven in part by incomes that went up slightly

  It’s striking that incomes went up with more than 20 million people unemployed. Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial, says President Trump’s unilateral move to provide $300-a-week payments through FEMA to those who lost wages due to the pandemic “was enough to carry income growth in September” in combination with some rebound in the economy. However, Low said, “it won’t last forever. There was a limited amount of funds.” Low is worried about the rest of the fall, as Congress and the White House still do not have a deal to extend additional unemployment aid. “I expect the economy is going to slow down quite hard in the fourth quarter.”

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• The complicated history of voting technology

  by David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin

  

  MIT professor Charles Stewart III reflects on how technology both improved voting security and created new election fears.

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