26 episodes
Wealth & Poverty from Marketplace APM American Public Media
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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.
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Schools struggle to address rising student homelessness
More than 1.3 million students were identified as homeless nationwide in 2017, according to federal data.
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Research says collaboration is needed to address Houston's "food deserts"
In some cases, groups trying to solve the problem are competing for funding.
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Kicking the habit
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
After adjusting for inflation, black workers' median weekly earnings have risen at a fraction of the pace of wages for white, Hispanic and Asian workers.
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Families bear the costs of alternative sentencing programs
Does alternative sentencing create a system of easily exploited free labor?
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Supply
It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.