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.
From New York: Hotel workers in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and San Francisco have voted to authorize a strike if big hotel operators don't meet their demands for increased wages, decreased workloads, and family health insurance..
From Los Angeles: A whole new era of music was just getting started 25 years ago this month. Since then, it hasn't just staked out its place in the music business... It's become a major part of American culture.
From Alabama: A new survey estimates that about four percent of adults in the U.S. suffer from attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder - or A-D-H-D. The condition can make it difficult for them concentrate and, as Tanya Ott reports, may have a significant impact on their earning potential.
From New York: After nearly 15 years the U.S. government is expected to announce today it will rejoin the International Coffee Organization. The United States pulled out in the late 1980s, over disagreement on the cartel's artificial price controls. Marketplace's Amy Scott reports.
From Los Angeles: The U.S. still gets good grades for sending kids to college, but its performance is slipping when it comes to keeping them there.
From Tokyo: The flat screen TV market is one of the fastest-growing in the industry. Now two more Japanese electronics power-houses just announced they are jumping into the field.
From London: The oil production cartel OPEC has agreed to lift its output quota by 1 million barrels-per-day.
From Paris: Affirmative Action in the workplace has been around for years in the U.S. But it's an untested concept in France. Car-maker Peugeot just announced it will introduce what its calling positive discrimination in its hiring - the first large French company to do so.
From Washington: Women over 35? Pay attention to this: The retailer Gap has a new set of stores on the way, targeted at you.
Features
Is bankruptcy a solution?
We're hearing more about bankruptcies these days -- both personal and corporate. No surprise, there. After all, we're seeing record levels of debt both among consumers and businesses. But are all these bankruptcies really the way to go? Marketplace commentator Robert Reich has some doubts on this edition of The Public's Business.
Phishing for the Web scam
"Jaws" may have been the leader of the pack when it came to scaring people -but these days Phish attacks may pose more of a threat... Phishing is the term for scam artists who masquerade as companies like Citibank. They use email or a fake job posting to persuade people into give up financial information. The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that from June to July of this year, phish attacks rose by nearly 40 percent. An estimated 5 percent of internet users fall victim to the trick. Marketplace's Ashley Milne-Tyte reports...
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
