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PODCAST: Fees, glorious fees

Bond markets, airline fees, and job training.

2015 is the year bonds have been convulsing around the world. More on that. Plus, Fees to check bags, change tickets, cancel flights – airlines now charge their customers a raft of fees for all sorts of things. We take a closer look at the exponential growth of airline fees. Plus, if there is one (unqualified) success story from the Empowerment Zone in Baltimore, it might be a small but vigorous job-training program started by the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in conjunction with Johns Hopkins. At present, it has sent nearly 400 men and women into middle-skill, often middle-class lab jobs – and it stands as one of the few lasting programs to survive the end of the federal funding period. 

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