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Marketplace® is the leading business news program in the nation. Host Kai Ryssdal and our team of reporters bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Airing each weekday evening on your local public radio station or on-demand anytime, Marketplace is your liaison between economics and life. Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal is part of the Marketplace portfolio of public radio programs broadcasting nationwide, which additionally includes Marketplace Morning Report®, Marketplace Weekend®, and Marketplace Tech®. Visit marketplace.org for more. From American Public Media. Twitter: @Marketplace

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Since July, more than 36 million households have received a few hundred dollars every month through the expanded child tax credit. Tomorrow, that won’t be the case. In this episode, we hear what the extra cash has given families and ...

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01.15.2022 What’s next for the families who rely on the child tax credit? Since July, more than 36 million households have received a few hundred dollars every month through the expanded child tax credit. Tomorrow, that won’t be the case. In this episode, we hear what the extra cash has given families and ...
01.14.2022 The economy is bouncing back, but not for women of color In December, employment prospects improved for every race and gender group — except Black women, for whom the jobless rate increased from 4.9% to 6.2%. Today, we look at how racism and segregation shaped the economic trajectory of women of ...
01.13.2022 Inflation may have already peaked The consumer price index clocked year-over-year inflation at 7% on Wednesday, the fastest pace since 1982. But month-over-month numbers and other factors point to a deceleration that could give consumers some relief. On today’s show, we do the numbers on ...
01.12.2022 Are rents surging or stalling? Depends on whom you ask. If you’re a renter in need of a chuckle, just look at the consumer price index, which calculates rent inflation at just 3% for last year. The cost is rising much faster for many renters, and other data sources show ...
01.11.2022 If it feels like we’ve been here before … … it’s because we have. As omicron surges nationwide, nearly a quarter of hospitals are critically short-staffed, according to federal data. That’s forcing hospitals to once again make tough calls, like limiting bed capacity, cutting elective surgeries or asking health ...
01.08.2022 December’s jobs report is a head-scratcher Unemployment fell in December close to a pre-pandemic low. But the economy added far fewer jobs than economists expected. So what gives? It has to do with the two different surveys that make up the monthly jobs report and how ...
01.07.2022 What happens to our economy if we’re not a democracy? One year ago, supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent and deadly attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Today, we revisit the economic ripples of the Jan. 6 insurrection and examine how political ...
01.06.2022 Brexit’s impact, one year on Though the United Kingdom formally ended its European Union membership at the start of 2020, last week marked the one-year anniversary of the U.K. severing remaining ties with the EU. Today, we hear about the hopes, frustrations and economic outlooks ...
01.04.2022 Corporate boards are finally starting to keep their diversity promises While a group of GOP-led states is currently pushing against NASDAQ board diversity requirements, some corporations have already ramped up their diversification efforts. The number of directors from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups jumped by 25% in 2021, and women ...
01.04.2022 A look at Sacramento’s “right to housing” proposal California is home to nearly one-quarter of the country’s homeless population, a count that has likely grown during the pandemic. Last year, the mayor of Sacramento — home to 11,000 people without homes — proposed a radical solution to the ...
01.01.2022 New year, same pandemic Even if it may not feel like it amid spiking COVID-19 cases, we are in a very different world — and economy — than the one we were in a year ago. Today, we’re taking a look back at 12 ...
12.31.2021 While renters face eviction, a Texas county returns unspent relief aid In late November, commissioners in Montgomery County — located north of Houston — voted to return $7 million in unused federal rent relief. But some renters there are still facing eviction, and many have found it difficult to access county- ...
12.30.2021 How pandemic grief is rippling into the economy A little over a year ago, the first American received a COVID-19 vaccine. Now, we’re averaging more than 250,000 positive COVID cases per day. This year has been … a lot. Consumers and workers are more resilient but are tired ...
12.28.2021 In California, a blueprint for addressing the opioid crisis The pandemic has exacerbated the country’s opioid crisis. More than 100,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses last year in the highest one-year death toll on record. Today, we take a look at a recently expanded program ...
12.28.2021 Will shorter CDC isolation guidelines help COVID staffing issues? On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the recommended isolation period for people who get COVID-19 from 10 days to five. Still, COVID cases are surging with the spread of the omicron variant. Now airline, health care ...
12.24.2021 A 2022 New Year’s gift for many workers? An increased minimum wage At the start of 2022, more than 50 jurisdictions are slated to raise their minimum wage rates, many to $15 an hour or more. Despite widespread support for increased minimum wages and years-long activism, efforts to boost the minimum wage ...
12.24.2021 COVID-19 mitigations are straining school nurses Before the pandemic, roughly a quarter of schools in the United States didn’t employ a school nurse at all, and less than half employed nurses full time. Now, many of those nurses are adding contract tracing and COVID-19 testing to ...
12.22.2021 Why being single is costly in the U.S. It won’t appear as an additional tax or fee on a receipt, but if you’re single in the U.S., you’re paying more than your married peers. That’s because policies and programs, from Social Security to the tax code, were written ...
12.22.2021 In tourist communities, short-term rentals are pricing out locals When you head to an outdoorsy town or resort community to get away from it all, it can be easy to forget the people who live and work there full time, ensuring that the place runs smoothly. The tourism that ...
12.21.2021 What Manchin’s derailing of Build Back Better could mean for the economy How much pull on the economy can one man have? Quite a bit, it turns out. On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, announced that he would not be supporting the Build Back Better Act, citing inflation concerns. The bill, ...
12.18.2021 Omicron on the mind Remember just a few weeks back, when we didn’t know whether this new COVID-19 variant was pronounced ah-micron or oh-micron? However you say it, it’s at the doorstep and ready to barge into the economy. Today, we’ll tackle omicron in ...
12.17.2021 COVID-19 has made inflation a global problem In case you haven’t heard … prices? They’re higher these days. That’s not terribly surprising, given the global supply chain debacle, but it turns out a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has an impact, too. Dozens of countries have experienced inflation since the ...
12.16.2021 The child tax credit has given stability to many families. Today’s payment could be the last. As part of a COVID-19 relief package last spring, Congress expanded the federal child tax credit and started sending it out in monthly installments. For many families, the extra couple of hundred dollars each month has provided a cushion for ...
12.15.2021 So what can the Fed actually do about inflation? The producer price index came out today and — no surprise — inflation is hitting the folks who make the products we buy, too. The Federal Reserve is meeting today, but what exactly can it do to address rising prices? ...
12.14.2021 How the Kentucky tornadoes are compounding an existing housing crisis After devastating tornadoes swept through Kentucky last week, killing dozens and destroying thousands of homes, displaced residents are left wondering where to go. Kentucky already had a shortage of affordable housing, with 30% of the state’s renters at or below ...
12.11.2021 More than just a number Odds are, you’ve heard the figure by now: 6.8%. That’s what the consumer price index clocked for year-over-year inflation today. Those rising prices, especially for essentials like food and housing, are squeezing folks on low or fixed incomes. Though the ...
12.10.2021 Where will this economy be in December 2022? While both chewing on the lowest number of initial unemployment claims since the late 1960s and bracing for tomorrow’s inflation data for November, we decided to cast our minds ahead to December 2022. What’s the labor market going to look ...
12.09.2021 For some small businesses, the wonky supply chain is an opportunity If you’ve set foot inside any chain or big-box store in the past couple of months, odds are you’ve spotted an empty shelf or two. While it’s been difficult for lots of major retailers to get the products and supplies ...
12.08.2021 How this investor became the “slumdoge millionaire” In February, Glauber Contessoto invested his life savings in dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that started as a joke. But his gains are for real. He now owns more than $800,000 in dogecoin. Marketplace’s Matt Levin chats with Contessoto about the HODL ...
12.07.2021 A jobs report full of mixed signals If the U.S. economy had a Facebook profile, its relationship status with jobs would be set to … well … “It’s complicated.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a muddled job report last week, with a little over 200,000 jobs ...
12.04.2021 How the gas boom transformed a small town in Louisiana Natural gas prices have skyrocketed in recent months thanks to strong global demand. Today, Marketplace’s Andy Uhler takes us to a village in northwest Louisiana where many landowners signed away their mineral rights to drillers. The resulting infusion of cash ...
12.02.2021 Omicron could keep older workers on the sidelines Workers over 65 were the fastest-growing segment of the labor force before the pandemic. But as the pandemic persists and new coronavirus variants spread, older adults have been slow to return to the workforce, and many have simply retired early. ...
12.02.2021 Shipping logjams are polluting portside communities California’s portside neighborhoods, which are home to many low-income residents and communities of color, have long suffered from polluted air. But supply chain bottlenecks have worsened that pollution, which has been linked to cancer, heart disease and asthma. Though community ...
12.01.2021 Food banks are being squeezed by inflation too Food banks saw increased demand at the height of the pandemic. Now, as inflation limits what your buck can buy at grocery stores, demand is rising yet again. But food banks are dealing with those higher costs too, as well ...
11.30.2021 In case you forgot: COVID still runs this economy The coronavirus omicron variant caused stock market jitters on Friday. While the strain’s impact on global health remains to be seen, if omicron is similar to the delta wave, we can expect travel and consumer spending to take a big ...
11.27.2021 Next-day delivery is so pre-pandemic. Cue ultra-fast delivery. Whereas next- or same-day delivery services transformed the way people shopped at the height of the pandemic, there’s a new kid in town: companies that will deliver an order in under 20 minutes. While the services have made it to ...
11.26.2021 Bemidji, Minnesota has paid teleworkers to move there. How is it playing out? At the height of the pandemic, dozens of small communities saw an opportunity to recruit people who could work from anywhere — by paying them to move. Today, Dan Kraker takes us to Bemidji, Minnesota, where a program offers people ...
11.24.2021 Inflation and unemployment stats tell a complicated story We got a feast of economic figures the day before Thanksgiving: First-time unemployment claims are at a 52-year low. But a key index shows inflation is at a 31-year high. Consumer spending is up too, yet consumer sentiment is at ...
11.24.2021 Biden’s release of oil reserves is unlikely to ease gas prices Gas prices are high ahead of holiday travel. To address oil costs, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he would tap into oil reserves and release 50 million barrels. But energy analysts say consumers likely won’t feel relief at the ...
11.23.2021 What Jerome Powell’s renomination means for Fed policy President Joe Biden announced today that he will nominate Jerome Powell for a second term as Federal Reserve chair. Progressive Democrats were hoping Biden would nominate board member Lael Brainard, whom he instead picked for vice chair. The decision indicates ...
11.19.2021 Postponing a blockbuster comes at a hefty cost As COVID-19 shuttered movie theaters across the country, production companies had few options: release films directly to streaming platforms or hold off on movie releases until the pandemic dust settles. But pressing the pause button can mean multibillion-dollar losses. In ...
11.18.2021 Korean pop culture has taken the world by storm. And not by accident. The success of releases like “Squid Game,” “Parasite” and the boom of K-pop is no coincidence. It’s the result of South Korea’s decades-long investment in film, television and music. Today, Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab takes a look at how Korean entertainment ...
11.18.2021 Small businesses attempt a new balancing act Big-box retailers like Home Depot, Target and Walmart are well stocked and ready to go for the holiday season. But for smaller retailers and businesses, inflation and supply chain issues are packing a real double whammy. Many are having to ...
11.17.2021 Inflation sure hasn’t stopped consumer spending The Commerce Department released figures on October retail spending today, and ka-ching! Retail sales jumped 1.7% from September, but inflation accounted for about half of that gain. Still, spending was up for electronics, groceries and gas as consumers tried to ...
11.16.2021 When working from anywhere means working in luxury After 19 months of working amid the chaos of kids and dogs and laundry, many employees are craving at least some office time. Yet the return to downtown high-rises has been slow. So, some companies are nixing fluorescent-lit cubicles in ...
11.13.2021 How employer vaccine mandates are playing out in a tribal border town Indigenous Americans are vaccinated at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But vaccination rates are much lower in communities that surround many tribal nations. Marketplace reporter Savannah ...
11.12.2021 Inflation, inflation, inflation We talked about it yesterday and we’ll talk about it again: according to the Consumer Price Index, inflation is up 6.2% in the past year, the biggest surge in three decades. Today, we’ll take a look at some of inflation’s ...
11.11.2021 How a group of determined Black women are saving a block in West Baltimore Just a few years ago, 78-year-old Poinsetta McKnight was the last homeowner living on the 1900 block of Etting Street in Baltimore. The street bore the scars of redlining, but with the help of the nonprofit Black Women Build – ...
11.10.2021 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen talks infrastructure, inflation and the debt ceiling Kai Ryssdal often liked to play a game on the show he would call What’s Janet Yellen Thinking? Well, today he took a trip to Washington, D.C., to ask just that. The two chatted about the potential impact of the ...
11.09.2021 Unpacking the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Over the weekend, Congress passed the trillion-dollar, bipartisan infrastructure bill. There’s a lot of money in it to tackle a lot of issues: roads and bridges, electric vehicles and charging stations, broadband access and much more. In today’s episode, we ...

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What’s next for the families who rely on the child tax credit?

The economy is bouncing back, but not for women of color

Inflation may have already peaked

Are rents surging or stalling? Depends on whom you ask.

If it feels like we’ve been here before …

December’s jobs report is a head-scratcher

What happens to our economy if we’re not a democracy?

Brexit’s impact, one year on

Corporate boards are finally starting to keep their diversity promises

A look at Sacramento’s “right to housing” proposal

New year, same pandemic

While renters face eviction, a Texas county returns unspent relief aid

How pandemic grief is rippling into the economy

In California, a blueprint for addressing the opioid crisis

Will shorter CDC isolation guidelines help COVID staffing issues?

A 2022 New Year’s gift for many workers? An increased minimum wage

COVID-19 mitigations are straining school nurses

Why being single is costly in the U.S.

In tourist communities, short-term rentals are pricing out locals

What Manchin’s derailing of Build Back Better could mean for the economy

Omicron on the mind

COVID-19 has made inflation a global problem

The child tax credit has given stability to many families. Today’s payment could be the last.

So what can the Fed actually do about inflation?

How the Kentucky tornadoes are compounding an existing housing crisis

More than just a number

Where will this economy be in December 2022?

For some small businesses, the wonky supply chain is an opportunity

How this investor became the “slumdoge millionaire”

A jobs report full of mixed signals

How the gas boom transformed a small town in Louisiana

Omicron could keep older workers on the sidelines

Shipping logjams are polluting portside communities

Food banks are being squeezed by inflation too

In case you forgot: COVID still runs this economy

Next-day delivery is so pre-pandemic. Cue ultra-fast delivery.

Bemidji, Minnesota has paid teleworkers to move there. How is it playing out?

Inflation and unemployment stats tell a complicated story

Biden’s release of oil reserves is unlikely to ease gas prices

What Jerome Powell’s renomination means for Fed policy

Postponing a blockbuster comes at a hefty cost

Korean pop culture has taken the world by storm. And not by accident.

Small businesses attempt a new balancing act

Inflation sure hasn’t stopped consumer spending

When working from anywhere means working in luxury

How employer vaccine mandates are playing out in a tribal border town

Inflation, inflation, inflation

How a group of determined Black women are saving a block in West Baltimore

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen talks infrastructure, inflation and the debt ceiling

Unpacking the $1 trillion infrastructure bill

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