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
"Chris Farrell calls this a 'blue-collar recession'. According to journalist Nan Mooney and professor of financial law Elizabeth Warren, the white-collar middle-class may not be losing jobs, but they are falling behind in earnings and growing in debt, so are feeling -- and are -- less secure than their parents. Job loss, wage stagnation (or retreat) for white-collar workers, job insecurity . . . really rankle when we see the top 1 percent continue to grow richer each year, and often because today's business practices squeeze the rest of us till we bleed."
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