Marketplace Morning Report Stories

Chile has approved a law saying that businesses need to cut their employees’ hours from 45 hours to 40 hours a week to help give everyone a better work-life balance.

Factors like high interest rates, tight credit and workers continuing to work from home are all hitting commercial construction demand.

With people returning to physical gyms, Jeff Witherspoon, CEO of E2M Fitness, says doctors’ advice to patients is boosting his service.

It’s been harder for lower- and middle-income households to afford higher food, rent and gas prices without getting into debt.

Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.

New research casts doubt on the widespread belief that the generation of Americans will be worse off than their parents.

“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools.

The marching bands at historically Black institutions can be the face of their schools — pulling in prospective students who may not even join the band.

Many travelers still prioritize the cost of travel over which airplane they will fly in.

Regulators are more watchful, and banks are trying to be more resourceful.