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Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM
The Marketplace Wealth and Poverty Desk explores money and class, where we came from and where our country is going economically, thanks to funding from the Ford Foundation. We want to hear your stories, ideas, and questions to help us create great journalism about the growing concentration of wealt...
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Schools struggle to address rising student homelessness
Cecilia Sirianni's small office at Massabesic High School can sometimes get a bit messy. Piles of donated clothes and boxes of snacks fill cabinets an...
Research says collaboration is needed to address Houston's "food deserts"
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 50 million people across the country live in “food deserts” – low-income communities where it can be...
African Americans' wages nearly stagnant over decade
The unemployment rate is near historic lows, the job market is tight, and wages have been rising steadily.But since the Great Recession, wage gains ha...
Families bear the costs of alternative sentencing programs
For the past 30 years, courts in the United States have experimented with different programs designed to keep convicted offenders out of jail — things...
Low interest rates have cost savers roughly half a trillion dollars
Historically low rates of interest have helped the U.S. economy recover from the Great Recession. But there have been casualties. Savers — and the wid...
Life for Americans without identifying documents can be financially devastating
When American-born children age out of foster care without identifying documents like birth certificates and state ID cards, their financial futures c...
106: How do drug epidemics end?
Opioid overdoses are killing about 50,000 Americans a year, more than car accidents and guns. Marketplace's documentary podcast, The Uncertain Hour, i...
Report finds link between high housing costs and poor health
According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin — which ranks the health of nearly every county in t...
Border crossings on the rise despite increased federal investment
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reports more than 76,000 people came over the southern border last month without documents. That’s more than...
Delivery companies finding ways to help restaurants donate excess food
Nearly one-third of food prepared by restaurants and grocery stores winds up as waste, according to data cited by the Environmental Protection Agency....
Rents in many California cities keep rising, could a cap on increases help?
Californians' rejection of a rent control measure in November 2018 has prompted some politicians in Sacramento to talk about getting an anti-rent goug...
Urban Institute analyzes reach of social safety net
A new analysis by the Urban Institute finds that a quarter of Americans living in poverty don’t receive public assistance such as food stamps, subsidi...
Refunds are looking slimmer this tax season
Update: This story originally published on Jan. 28. It has been updated to include emailed responses.
Tax filing season got underway this week....
Millennials, like Baby Boomers, struggle with lifelong debt
A recent survey points out that one in 10 millennials thinks they will die in debt.Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
Millions of workers don't do 9 to 5. So where's the child care?
Most nights for Chardae Smith, a 33-year-old single mom in Pittsburgh, start with dropping off her baby at ABK Learning and Development Center around...
California’s devastating wildfires have made it harder for some day workers to find employment
Recent devastating wildfires burned down more than 300 homes in Malibu, California — one of the wealthiest cities in California. Many homeowners there...
Confronting a crisis: The hard truths about American retirement
With a resume that includes a Harvard MBA, a position at the World Bank and a stint as an entrepreneur, Elizabeth White didn't expect to be unprepared...
Seniors are still struggling to recover after the financial crisis
A high-rise for seniors isn't where Kathy Stevens, 67, expected to live at this point in her life. Her place has a small kitchen and living area and a...
Congress closes in on a final farm bill
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a nearly $900 billion bill. To get there, House Republicans backed off demand...
Welfare's role in alternative to abortion programs.
This August will present a milestone: 20 years since welfare reform. The federal government overhauled the cash assistance program for poor families,...