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  • Mar 13, 2018

    For American children of Mexican immigrants, a battle to get documented in Mexico

    Daniela Silva Abascal and her father Daniel Silva Soto at home in Puebla, Mexico.
    Jorge Valencia for Marketplace

    More than a quarter million people who were born in the U.S. to Mexican parents live in Mexico and haven’t been registered in either place.

  • Mar 13, 2018

    How do millions of workers with no legal protection stand up to sexual harassment?

    There are up to 2 million people going to work in homes across America. Many of these domestic workers have little-to-no legal protections, and many of them experience sexual harassment or assault. Marketplace’s Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal speak with Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance about how that is changing. Hear […]

  • Mar 13, 2018

    China moves to tighten control of the internet

    In China, the internet is censored. You can’t get access to Google, or Facebook or Twitter unless you have a workaround known as a virtual private network. VPN technology lets users jump over the so-called Great Firewall of China. But now those jumping days could be ending. By month’s end, Beijing plans to block all VPN […]

  • Mar 12, 2018

    Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students?

    Fifth graders working in a math class at AltSchool Yerba Buena. 
    Sarah Tan/Marketplace

    Learning platforms that create individualized curriculums for student are a growing industry.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    Why the U.S. might be the original startup story

    A role player in Plymouth, Massachusetts, tends cows at Plimoth Plantation. The 17th century replica village was the site of the first Thanksgiving in 1623.
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    The Pilgrims were early colonial entrepreneurs — but they weren't the first.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    African-American unemployment is nearly twice as high as white unemployment

    A job seeker fills out a registration form as he waits to enter the San Francisco Hirevent job fair at the Hotel Whitcomb on March 27, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Black women are starting their own businesses at the highest rate of any demographic group, report says.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    How William Perkin’s search for a malaria cure led to the color mauve

    The original mauve — similar to the shade depicted in this image — was much brighter than the color we know today.
    William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

    A teenager tinkering in his lab invented a brilliant synthetic shade of purple in Victorian England.

  • Mar 10, 2018

    Jobs report: What’s not to like?

    Surrounded by steel and aluminum workers, President Donald Trump signs a proclamation on steel imports at the White House on March 8.
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    More than 300,000 jobs were added to the economy last month.

  • Mar 10, 2018

    Black Panther misses merchandise bonanza

    The Black Panther phenomenon continues. The Marvel — really, the Disney — blockbuster opened in China today, bringing its estimated box office to $920 million worldwide. It’s the perfect time for retailers to cash in on the movie’s success with a slew of Panther-themed merchandise: toys, t-shirts, tote bags and more. Turns out, though, that […]

  • Mar 10, 2018

    Is a troubled economy driving North Korea to the table?

    Yesterday’s surprise announcement that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet with President Donald Trump for denuclearization talks raises a lot of questions. Most importantly: Why now? The Trump administration, along with the international community, has recently ratcheted up economic sanctions against North Korea. While it’s clear those sanctions have done some damage to […]

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