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Our favorite Marketplace Weekend stories (encore)
Aug 3, 2018

Our favorite Marketplace Weekend stories (encore)

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This week, we are revisiting a bunch of our favorite stories from over the past few years.

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A crisis in home health care: What can be done?

by Hayley Hershman
May 5, 2017
We hear from an industry expert. Plus, listeners call and write in about their own experiences.
We hear from listeners about their experiences giving and receiving home health care.
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What it's like to run a small health care business

by Eliza Mills
Jun 30, 2017
The economics of small hospitals are more complex than you'd think.
Patients at Totally Kids Sun Valley live in the sub-acute hospital so that they can receive 24/7 care. All are dependent on either feeding tubes, breathing machines, dialysis or some combination of these treatments to stay alive. 
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Are shorts now office-appropriate? Let's ask a manager.

by Lizzie O'Leary
Jul 14, 2017
Alison Green weighs in on flip-flops, office culture and ... biting?
Shorts and flip flops at the same time, but not in an office.
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Things millennials love about the library

by Paulina Velasco
Aug 25, 2017
Millennials are making libraries cool again. A Pew Research Center study found that 53 percent of millennials in the U.S. had used their public library at least once in the year prior to the survey.
A library at a secondary school in London.
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What rescue puppies teach us about supply and demand

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Dec 7, 2017
Puppies sometimes make cross-country journeys to meet adoption demands.
Kelly Brown drives the Brother Wolf van through Rutherford County, North Carolina on her way to receive dogs for the trip to Connecticut.
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How to be a tour guide

by Eliza Mills
Mar 9, 2018
Jonathan Lerner put his passion for people, culture and history to work when he founded Tailored Tours Barcelona.
“Every time, I'm still humbled by the absolute beauty of the city, of the architecture and of the cultural heritage that I'm able to share,” says Jonathan Lerner of Barcelona. Above, La Sagrada Família basilica.
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Women and their employers can both work to combat gender wage gaps

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Mar 16, 2018
For every dollar that U.S. men make, women make about 80 cents. Black women make 63 cents for every dollar white men make. Latinas make 54 cents.
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