Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell and Business Insider’s Linette Lopez chat with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about the Federal Reserve’s upcoming Jackson Hole symposium, slowing growth forecasts and expiring expanded federal unemployment benefits.

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• Aid groups scramble to prepare homes for Afghan evacuees

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  The Biden administration has expanded the Special Immigrant Visa program to allow more Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the war to resettle here.

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• Back in name only: Toys R Us brand to reappear in more than 400 Macy’s stores

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  Just a few years ago, the toy retailer closed its U.S. operations and laid off 30,000 workers.

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• Can companies really be empathetic toward their workers?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban

  

  As Anne Helen Petersen writes, messaging about empathy is different from taking action, and not every employee is buying it.

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