Special features
The Real Agenda:
Politicians are campaigning hard. But are they offering solutions to the problems Americans really care about?
Five Years Later:
How businesses and personal lives have been affected by the terrorist attacks. Includes broadcasts from 2001.
One Home, Two Nations:
Many El Salvadorans have come to Fairfax, Va., seeking better lives, but separation from family and friends takes its toll.
Live from China:
For two weeks in January Marketplace broadcast live from China and took a look at the vast and rapid changes happening there.
The Undocumented War:
A window into the lives of people touched by illegal immigration on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Hurricanes and their aftermath:
The national, local and personal economic effects of the 2005 hurricane season on the Gulf Coast.
Marketplace Takes Manhattan:
For one week, Marketplace explores Wall Street and the rest of New York City.
Reinventing Retirement:
Boomers' expectations of longer, more active retirements changes the way they need to plan for the future and the way the country needs to plan for an onslaught of retirees. A project of Marketplace and Marketplace Money. (Broadcast March 2005)
The Crash of 1929:
On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed. Reports on Marketplace, the Marketplace Morning Report, Marketplace Money and Weekend America examine its causes and how it still affects us today. (Broadcast October 2004)
A little Marketplace history
Ongoing coverage
Marketplace Health Desk:
Covering the latest domestic and international health issues affecting Americans. Out of WGBH in Boston.
Marketplace Work & Family Desk:
Examining issues that affect the family and influence decisions made at home and at work.
Job Files:
A series of vignettes about the not-so-ordinary ways people earn a living, broadcast every two weeks on Fridays.
Youth Radio:
Berkeley-based Youth Radio produces feature stories for Marketplace and other national radio outlets.
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Marketplace Confessional
"I enjoyed Stacey Vanek-Smith's piece about backyard tomato growing, but felt that it gave an unfortunate negative impression about the economics of home production. There are lots of terrific noneconomic reasons for growing one's own food. A savvy approach is needed if one wants to do it to save money, though, and this may involve NOT throwing in money like it's the height of the dot-com bubble again. . . " "
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