The ride-share app Uber has secured a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia; Truck divers are striking over employment status, Marketplace’s Andy Uhler takes a look at how the debate is affecting the six hundred billion dollar industry; and how thirty-somethings in Oakland have developed co-ops in response to the lack of affordable housing. 

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warns that the global economy is falling into a “low-growth trap”; Disney reportedly orders reshoots for the new Star Wars movie, “Rogue One”; and Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz follows up with one of the women profiled in his new book “Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams along a Shanghai Road.”

Today’s episode goes inside Verizon’s American call centers and inside the heads of American consumers. Plus: Only about half of welfare funding actually goes to cash assistance, work or child care. What happens to the rest?

On this Memorial Day episode: Military spouse employment, home prices and part of our new podcast “The Uncertain Hour.”

Microsoft and Facebook — the social network you can’t escape — are teaming up to build a fiber optics cable under the mid-Atlantic. Plus: what, me worry (about a trade war)?

Trump vs. Sanders. Peter Thiel vs. Gawker. Georgia’s “HERO” vs. Traffic. Plus: This election season is already breaking fundraising records.

HP is spinning off its spin-off, Buzzfeed’s podcast expert is striking out on her own and Gawker has found a new adversary in its legal fight with Hulk Hogan.

Broadway’s record year, the TSA’s possible-record lines and microchips implanted in your hand. Plus: how superheroes killed the superstars.

Aircraft manufacturing deals abroad, hospital mergers at home and an interview with Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellmann. Plus: Why are there no ads on most streaming sports?