The National performs ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ live for Marketplace’s Wealth and Poverty desk
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November 1, 2012
October 31, 2012
Is running the government like running a business?
It’s not that there aren’t significant comparisons to be made. Just like a company, the U.S. has money coming in the door (income), and money going out the door (expenses), and the leaders of both the company and the economy strive (if they’re smart) to balance their budgets year after year.
But that’s really about as far as the analogy extends.
October 31, 2012
October 3, 2012
I had a bad attitude almost my whole life. The smallest things would make me snap. In the classroom the teacher tells you to do something and you’re surrounded by friends used to you being like, “Oh I ain’t doing nothing,” so you feel like you have to stand up. I had a certain level of “hardness.” Very ignorant. It didn’t lead to anything but me sitting in ISS by myself while my friends were in class laughing.
I did my work, though. When reports cards came, people would be like, “Yo! You making A’s and B’s.” Because I’d go home and do my work. At school, I was having fun. I’d come to class, make a couple jokes, put my head down, go to sleep. But by the time I got home, I made sure I did everything. That was my ambition, I guess.
- I could still screw up my life, as told to Dick Gordon of The Story
October 1, 2012
How it Works: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Marketplace reporter Eve Troeh explores the secret world of oil in this explainer animation about the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Animation by Matt Berger.
September 28, 2012
On Being Blog: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue: A Civil Conversations Project Live Event with Frances Kissling and David Gushee...
when: Wed, Sep 26th, 2012 (3pm CST/4pm EST)
where: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U of MinnesotaDiscuss with others and ask your questions here:
Today Krista Tippett hosts the second of four live public events of The Civil Conversations Project (CCP). Krista’s…
September 26, 2012
The Wits fall season goes like this:
Nov. 2: Dave Foley and Mike Doughty
Nov. 16: Julia Sweeney and Martha Wainwright
Nov. 30: Maria Bamford and Brandi Carlile
Dec. 14: Henry Rollins and Lissie
September 24, 2012
The Tale of the $15 Tomato
Dubner: A lot of things we do for fun or for entertainment — things like gardening or knitting or baking — these are things that our great-grandparents HAD to do, and probably would’ve loved to NOT have to do.
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Levitt: I think that is really a sign of how spoiled we have all become. Our basic needs are so well taken care of that we need to seek out some sort of hardship to feel whole.
September 20, 2012
September 19, 2012
"No one would want to fund it unless we had something to show, something that proved that what we want to do is worth the investment. We’re sort of like a rock band like that. No one’s going to pay a rock band when they first start up. You have to get good at it, build up an audience. and show that people want to listen to what you have to offer. And you’ve got to do that, basically, for free for a while, until you can prove that you have some appeal."
— Jonathan Mitchell, to Daily Dot, about his program The Truth
September 16, 2012
Bill Smith makes fried oysters, collards and banana pudding
The southern food master explains his Key 3 recipes to Lynne:
I’m going to fly into the face of some people’s opinions — I’m going to produce a batter with lots of crust. People say, “Oh, this is all bread. You can’t taste anything but the crust.” I fry chicken that way, too. People see crust as sort of a mine field to get around on the way to the food.
September 16, 2012
September 14, 2012
Craig Hockenberry is principal of Oyler School in Cincinnati’s Lower Price Hill. Marketplace will be checking in throughout the year as the school fights poverty in its neighborhood.
August 30, 2012
Man vs. Markets
Marketplace Sr. Producer Paddy Hirsch’s new book, Man vs. Markets, is available in bookstores and online at Pretty Good Goods.
August 29, 2012
