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Erika Beras is a former reporter at Marketplace. She has covered wealth & poverty, aging and other beats for Marketplace's programs.
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Millions of workers don't do 9 to 5. So where's the child care?
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Erika Beras
Jan 14, 2019
There's a growing need for round-the-clock child care centers.
Flu season could be less damaging, experts say
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Erika Beras
Jan 8, 2019
During last year’s season, an estimated 80,000 people died.
Early admissions gets a second, and sometimes third, round
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Erika Beras
Jan 7, 2019
This fall saw college applications go out, and for some lucky students, early admissions letters came in. If students accept, the contracts are binding. The rest of the applicants? They have to wait until the spring to find out their fates. But increasingly, colleges have a second round. Click the audio player above to hear […]
NYC traffic fatalities fall to an all-time low
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Erika Beras
Jan 2, 2019
The city's Vision Zero program has cut road deaths by a third over five years
As box office sags, Netflix reports an online hit with "Bird Box"
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Erika Beras
Jan 2, 2019
While moviegoers were busy saying “meh” to a couple of new Hollywood offerings (“Vice” and “Holmes & Watson”), at least 45 million of them caught most of Netflix’s “Bird Box.” (That’s how many users the streaming service reports watched at least 70 percent of the horror film.) How is Netflix doing in the battle for our […]
Creditors may go easy on workers caught in the government shutdown. Or not.
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Erika Beras
Dec 28, 2018
The hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are not getting paid because of the partial government shutdown got a little advice from the government’s Office of Personnel Management today. Tips include how to talk to credit card companies, mortgage lenders and landlords about not being able to pay their bills. The OPM put out […]
Rising costs will continue to hit homebuilders
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Erika Beras
Dec 26, 2018
New home sales have been slipping most of the year for a variety of reasons
Seniors are still struggling to recover after the financial crisis
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Erika Beras
Dec 19, 2018
The number of seniors filing for bankruptcy has nearly doubled since 2007 to a record high of 12 percent, part of it driven by the financial crisis; another part by mounting debt for things like medical care, mortgage loans and credit card bills.
5G promises an interconnected world, but at what cost?
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Erika Beras
Dec 18, 2018
Fifth-generation technology is designed to be faster and to connect more devices at once. The hope is that it may spur new ways of communicating person to person, but also between devices, enabling things like autonomous vehicles. AT&T says it is starting its 5G rollout with a dozen cities where it has a strong client […]
Google’s CEO could face tough questions on Capitol Hill about the company's data practices
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Erika Beras
Dec 11, 2018
Privacy, money and data promise to all be topics of discussion.