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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 wealth in the United States. We’ll report on the forces and policies that led to the wealth gap. We’ll look at what the consequences are, good or bad, for our families and communities. We’ll be asking you what economic choices our country should make.
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Research says collaboration is needed to address Houston's "food deserts" from 2019-05-01T09:00:37
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 hard to find healthy food. According to the la...
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Kicking the habit from 2019-04-18T11:00
Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.
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African Americans' wages nearly stagnant over decade from 2019-04-18T09:20
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 have varied significantly by race, with African A...
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Families bear the costs of alternative sentencing programs from 2019-04-12T11:02:40
For the past 30 years, courts in the United States have experimented with different programs designed to keep convicted offenders out of jail — things like drug court or court-ordered community ser...
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Low interest rates have cost savers roughly half a trillion dollars from 2019-04-10T15:56:10
Historically low rates of interest have helped the U.S. economy recover from the Great Recession. But there have been casualties. Savers — and the wider economy — have lost interest income from dep...
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Life for Americans without identifying documents can be financially devastating from 2019-04-10T10:00
When American-born children age out of foster care without identifying documents like birth certificates and state ID cards, their financial futures can be at stake. These young people may have tro...
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Welcome to Wise County from 2019-04-04T10:00:57
It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”
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Sentencing from 2019-03-28T10:54:05
The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousands of people like him. That didn’t end the crack epidemic, so what did?
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What happened to Keith? from 2019-03-22T10:42:56
One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.
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George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack from 2019-03-21T10:41:29
It was the perfect political prop: drugs seized by government agents right across the street from the White House, just in time for a big presidential address. The reality was more complicated.
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Report finds link between high housing costs and poor health from 2019-03-19T08:30:31
According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wis...
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Border crossings on the rise despite increased federal investment from 2019-03-06T09:30
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 double from the same time last year. A look at...
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Delivery companies finding ways to help restaurants donate excess food from 2019-02-19T09:30
Nearly one-third of food prepared by restaurants and grocery stores winds up as waste, Listen
Rents in many California cities keep rising, could a cap on increases help? from 2019-02-11T07:30
Californians' rejection of a rent control measure in November 2018 has prompted some ...
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Urban Institute analyzes reach of social safety net from 2019-02-06T05:38:55
A new analysis by the Urban Institute finds that a quarter of Americans living in po...
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Refunds are looking slimmer this tax season from 2019-01-29T18:20:06
Update: This story originally published on Jan. 28. It has been updated to include emailed responses. Tax filing season got underway this week. And it's a big one, because we just finished the firs...
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Millennials, like Baby Boomers, struggle with lifelong debt from 2019-01-21T10:47:01
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.
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Millions of workers don't do 9 to 5. So where's the child care? from 2019-01-14T15:03:17
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 10:30 p.m. to make it to work by 11.Smith does ...
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California’s devastating wildfires have made it harder for some day workers to find employment from 2019-01-01T07:05:26
Recent devastating wildfires burned down more than 300 homes in Malibu, California — one of the wealthiest cities in California. Many homeowners there employed gardeners and housekeepers who lost t...
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Confronting a crisis: The hard truths about American retirement from 2018-12-31T14:23:05
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 for retirement. She also didn't expect to find...
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Seniors are still struggling to recover after the financial crisis from 2018-12-19T12:00:02
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 an accordion door she can pull to close off the ...
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Congress closes in on a final farm bill from 2018-12-12T12:26:34
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a nearly $900 billion bill. To get there, House Republicans backed off demands to increase work requirements for people rece...
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Congress closes in on a final farm bill from 2018-12-12T12:26:34
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a nearly $900 billion bill. To get there, House Republicans backed off demands to increase work requirements for people rece...
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Congress closes in on a final farm bill from 2018-12-12T12:26:34
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a nearly $900 billion bill. To get there, House Republicans backed off demands to increase work requirements for people rece...
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Welfare's role in alternative to abortion programs. from 2016-06-23T09:19:54
This August will present a milestone: 20 years since welfare reform. The federal government overhauled the cash assistance program for poor families, replacing it with a new system called Temporary...
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