Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM

By American Public Media

The Marketplace Wealth and Poverty Desk explores money and class, where we came from and where our country is going economically, thanks to funding from the Ford Foundation. We want to hear your stori... more

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How many episodes does Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM have?

The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.

Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM episodes:

May 07, 2019 Schools struggle to address rising student homelessness
More than 1.3 million students were identified as homeless nationwide in 2017, according to federal data.
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3min
May 01, 2019 Research says collaboration is needed to address Houston's "food deserts"
In some cases, groups trying to solve the problem are competing for funding.
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3min
April 18, 2019 Kicking the habit
Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.
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50min
April 18, 2019 African Americans' wages nearly stagnant over decade
After adjusting for inflation, black workers' median weekly earnings have risen at a fraction of the pace of wages for white, Hispanic and Asian workers.
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2min
April 12, 2019 Families bear the costs of alternative sentencing programs
Does alternative sentencing create a system of easily exploited free labor?
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4min
April 11, 2019 Supply
It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.
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41min
April 10, 2019 Low interest rates have cost savers roughly half a trillion dollars
The post-crisis financial policy has a downside.
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3min
April 10, 2019 Life for Americans without identifying documents can be financially devastating
When American-born children age out of foster care without identifying documents like birth certificates and state ID cards, their financial futures can be at stake.
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3min
April 04, 2019 Welcome to Wise County
It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”
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36min
March 28, 2019 Sentencing
The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousands of people like him. That didn’t end the crack epidemic, so what did?
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49min

FAQs about Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM:

How many episodes does Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM have?

The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.

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