Friday, April 30, 2004 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.

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Newscast Stories From the Job Files: Today we visit Helene Lange, who has been giving manicures and pedicures in downtown Los Angeles for over 25 years. More from our Job Files series From Los Angeles: It's getting more expensive to become an American. Beginning today, the fees for applying for citizenship and legal residence are rising by more than 20 percent. As Marketplace's Matthew Algeo reports, the hikes have raised the ire of some immigrant advocates. From Washington, DC: Right now the target date set by Congress for the completion of the transition to DTV is New Year's Eve, 2006. Ashley Milne-Tyte looks into what the transition will mean for a nation of TV-watchers. From Los Angeles: Everyone's talking about Google and how -- or whether -- they can get a piece of the action when they go public. The company has filed long-awaited documents stating its intention to do that. Lisa Napoli reports on whether this IPO will usher in the sequel to the Internet bubble of a few years ago. From Washington, DC: The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday passed a bill to make it a federal offense to copy and distribute movies without permission. Motion picture piracy is growing, and the industry says it costs movie makers and investors more than $3 billion a year. John Dimsdale reports that technology has facilitated this growing trend. From New York: Last year, when the Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates to their lowest level in forty years, economists were reacting to concerns about deflation. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says they may have over-reacted. Marketplace's Amy Scott has more. Features EU Expansion: Tomorrow, more than 70 million people in Eastern Europe will wake up to find themselves citizens of the European Union. Eight former communist countries in the region - along with the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Malta - will become the EU's newest members. From the European Desk in London, Stephen Beard reports on the largest expansion in the EU's history, and what it could mean for the US. The Legacy of Alexander Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton had his work cut out for him when he became Treasury Secretary after the Revolutionary War. Biographer Ron Chernow tells host Kai Ryssdal about the challenges Hamilton faced as he helped launch America’s economy. Safe Deposit Boxes: You'll see lots of folks at the bank tonight and tomorrow morning depositing their paychecks. But odds are you won't find many wanting to access a safe deposit box. That's because fewer people these days are using those secured drawers at the bank to stash their valuable papers and baubles. And in a growing number of cases, you can't even get a box if you want one. Marketplace's Hillary Wicai tells us why.