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  • Feb 10, 2018

    Amazon will pilot package carrier service in Los Angeles

    As Amazon expands its logistics operations, it’s inching closer to developing a service that competes with FedEx and UPS. Shares of both package carriers fell today after news of Amazon’s new Shipping with Amazon service was reported in the Wall Street Journal. The company is piloting that service in Los Angeles, delivering some goods sold […]

  • Feb 10, 2018

    What happens when a new technology that is better for the environment also eliminates jobs?

    Longshoremen working on the ship COSCO Denmark at a non-automated terminal at the Port of Long Beach in 2010.
    Photo courtesy of the Port of Long Beach

    A union in California goes up against the rising tide of automation.

  • Feb 9, 2018

    Dan and Dave, and the most famous Olympic ad campaign of all time

    U.S. decathletes Dan O'Brien, left, and Dave Johnson at the Modesto Relays in Modesto, California, on May 16, 1992.
    Tim DeFrisco/Getty Images

    It involves Reebok, two decathletes, and one fateful day in New Orleans.

  • Feb 9, 2018

    Business cards are getting weirder

    Even in this digital age, the good old fashioned business card is far from dead. But it is getting weirder.  Some creative networkers and entrepreneurs are using oddball cards with unusual shapes and materials to stand out with potential clients. “What I found is that a lot of young people really love them because they […]

  • Feb 8, 2018

    Farm-to-table comes to a Louisiana jail

    one program that trains Licensed Vocational Nurses who work in rural areas for the state correctional system to be Registered Nurses
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    "Meals and food is the basic way that we show love and respect for one another," said the jail's warden, Catherine Fontenot. "And that’s what we need to show with people who have offended us the greatest."

  • Feb 8, 2018

    Two-year Senate budget deal provides certainty and busts spending caps

    Of course, the Senate deal has to be approved by the House and signed by President Donald Trump. But, assuming that happens, we wouldn’t have to worry about shutdowns or continuing resolutions until the end of fiscal 2019. So what then would a two-year spending plan mean for the federal government?  Click the audio player […]

  • Feb 7, 2018

    Montana inmates learn job and life skills while raising cattle on prison ranch

    An inmate attaches milkers to cows' teats.
    Eve Abrams/Marketplace

    But food coming from a prison isn't necessarily a selling point.

  • Feb 7, 2018

    What will it take to change Silicon Valley’s bro culture?

    What will it take to change Silicon Valley’s bro culture?
    JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

    Emily Chang details how Silicon Valley came to be a hostile work environment for women in her new book, "Brotopia."

  • Feb 7, 2018

    Iconic Cleveland toy store is closing after 27 years

    The view from outside the Big Fun Toy Store in the suburb of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
    Charlton Thorp/Marketplace

    Operating a small business, especially in a niche industry, can go either really well or not. For a couple decades, business at Steve Presser’s vintage toy store in Cleveland was booming, despite the challenges. We checked in on him on several occasions to see what it was like to be a small business owner in America’s heartland. Now […]

  • Feb 7, 2018

    Today’s trading was the very definition of volatility

    Today’s trading was the very definition of volatility
    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    But the bigger context is volatility in the markets has actually been falling over the last 30 years.

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