Monday, September 1, 2003 The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories. Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

Broadcasts Listen: 2:50 | 3:50 | 4:50 | 5:50 | 6:50 | 7:50 | 8:50 (times are a.m., Pacific Standard Time)

Newscast Stories (The newscasts above may include the following stories) From New York: Bob Moon details the International Labor Organization’s new study of worldwide labor trends. From Washington, DC: Gretchen Cook examines back-to-school sales and their possible influence on the holiday season. From San Diego: Eric Niiler reports on the falling price of slave labor in the U.S. From Los Angeles: Carol Gray reports California is bucking the trend of declining union membership. From Los Angeles: Julie Small has the story on the record number of people learning the how-to’s of show biz in college. From Washington, DC: Scott Tong has an update on how new visa rules are affecting the nation’s colleges and universities. From the Health Desk: Tanya Ott looks at what’s fueling the huge increase in fat surgery procedures. Features Less newly scripted shows in the future You don’t see many newly scripted TV shows rolling out in the summer. And as "Variety’s" Michael Speier tells host Tess Vigeland, you’ll probably see even fewer in the years ahead.

The rise of sports Barbers? Men like sports bars. So, why wouldn’t they go to sports barbers? Melanie Peeples reports savvy salons are wising up to a way to get guys to sit still for a haircut.