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The economics of disability (encore)

Aug 10, 2018

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  • Rhi Banks, an employee of the Brother Wolf Adoption Center, holds a puppy as they prepare for their overnight journey from North Carolina.

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    Timothy O’Connell for Topic

    This week, we are revisiting a bunch of our favorite stories from over the past few years.

  • This week, we are revisiting the stories listeners engaged with the most.

  • Back in 2017, we visited three cities: Dalton, Georgia; Gillette, Wyoming; and Corvallis, Oregon. In each place, we met with the mayor and with folks around town, getting a sense of the economy there and how it’s changing. We visited carpet factories and coal mines, spoke to students and business owners, and found unique stories of economic change — and how it affects real people and their lives. 

  • A lot happened in 2017, and we’re returning to one particular natural disaster that changed Puerto Rico from top to bottom. As communities on the island have recovered, there’s a trail of money to follow behind it all. This week, we are revisiting this hourlong special on the economics of disaster. We head to Puerto Rico to examine life on the ground following Hurricane Maria. We look at the debt situation, the realities of life when the lights stay out and what it takes to bring power back. Plus, Puerto Rico’s dairy farmers and a surprising boom in renewable energy. Also, recovery in Texas and how Florida is handling an influx of Puerto Ricans fleeing the damage from Hurricane Maria.

  • This week, we are revisiting an episode that we did on the industry that wants to make a better version of you. The market has been flooded with everything from workout routines to diets to therapy apps and food fads. But have they actually changed the way we feel or the way we invest in our health needs? And who is it that has access to this market? These are the questions on our minds this week. We’ll look at how the term wellness has evolved, why it’s so hard to find mental health services that will take insurance, plus food crazes, food deserts and the economics behind healthy eating.

  • The Marketplace Weekend finale
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    On this final episode, we talk storm chasing, rent-to-own housing and disability and hiring.

  • [Image description: A rower from Seize the Oar is setting up to practice on Lake Washington in Renton, Washington. She is wearing black tights and a lime green top. She is wearing dark rimmed glasses, and her hair is in a ponytail, tucked inside of the green and black baseball cap. She has multiple tattoos across both of her arms and has small gauges in her ears. She is slightly smiling as she puts on the boat’s safety straps.]
    Courtesy of Teal Sherer/Seize the Oar

    Roughly one in five Americans has a disability. Those numbers increase with age and vary across race and gender.

  • Did you know there’s a shortage of truck drivers? What that means for them and for the prices of products we buy. Plus, we take a dive into what it takes to be good at diplomacy. Then, futboool!!!

  • Building credit … finding the right job … saving for a home (or simply paying the rent). Also, Marketplace staff on the graduation advice they wish they received. And why “Pomp and Circumstance” is at every graduation. 

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