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What cheap gas means to Americans
What did Diane Lim do the last time she got gas? "I posted on Facebook," she said. That's right -- Lim, who is vice president of economic research at the Committee for Economic Development in...
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Introducing: How the Deck Is Stacked
Marketplace, FRONTLINE and PBS NewsHour are joining forces to investigate the American economy. Here's a sneak peek at our new collaboration, "How the Deck is Stacked."
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How do you feel about your financial situation?
Marketplace rolled out the second part of a poll this week with Edison Research about how much anxiety people are feeling about the state of the economy and their finances. We also decided to head...
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What we think about when we think about gas prices
The latest Marketplace Edison Research poll shows younger people and workers depending on hourly wages most appreciate low gas prices at the pump. But paying for gas is also an emotion. Something...
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How Americans feel about free-trade agreements
The topics of international trade and free trade agreements have been big issues in the presidential debates and with many voters. Republican John Kasich, who won Ohio Tuesday night, is the only...
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Are free trade agreements good or bad?
International trade and trade agreements have become a major issue on the presidential campaign trail, largely thanks to heavy criticism from Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders....
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Life without a financial safety net
Among the questions we asked in the Marketplace-Edison Research poll was how people would handle an unexpected expense. About a quarter of respondents said it would be "very difficult" to come up with...
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Where to turn when there's nowhere to turn
When an economic emergency strikes, many people have nowhere to turn. More than a quarter of people who responded to our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll said it would be “very difficult" to pay an...
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The financial anxiety of living on a fixed income
I’m with Betty Moncrief in a cemetery in Birmingham, Ala. We’re standing under a tree, which shades four graves. She points to her mother’s grave, and then to the one she’s picked out for herself....
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The midlife economic anxiety crisis
We've been digging into more of the results from our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll. We surveyed 1,000 people, and then took a look at who was the most anxious – the people who scored highest on the...
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No inheritance? No problem
Here’s another interesting tidbit from our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll — what people had to say about inheritance. Only 25 percent of respondents expect to receive an inheritance, but more than...
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Americans' anxiety around the economy grows
Welcome to the post-Brexit world – a global economic outlook more uncertain than ever. Before we all go raising alarms though, remember: many of the economic fundamentals in the American economy are...
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The U.S. economy is making us anxious and suspicious
We're out with a new edition of our national survey, the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, in which we track how Americans are feeling about the economy. In one word, anxious. In a couple of words —...
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Why Americans feel the economy is rigged
We asked a new question in our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll — this time, whether the U.S. economy is rigged in favor of certain groups. Almost 71 percent of the people we polled said yes. I...
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Survey says: Americans feel the economy is rigged
We’re digging into the results of our latest Marketplace-Edison Research poll. This time we asked whether people feel the economy is rigged in favor of certain groups. Almost 71 percent of the 1022...
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This is what economic anxiety looks like
This week, we’re rolling out the latest round of results from the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, and one of the ways we measured how people feel about the economy is through what we call the...
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The suburbs aren't immune from economic anxiety
According to our latest Marketplace-Edison Research Economic Poll, the economy can look a bit different if you live in an urban versus suburban or rural area. And people living in the suburbs are...
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Most Americans distrust Wall Street
Wall Street has been a big topic on the campaign trail this election season. Marketplace was curious what Wall Street means to you, so in our latest round of polling with Edison Research, we asked...
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What small business wants from the next president
The big business of Wall Street tends to be far more politically controversial than the small businesses of Main Street. In the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, 58 percent say Wall Street does...
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How trade and technology changed the textile industry
Gloria Craven has seen lots of politicians come through North Carolina. Gloria Craven at her home in Eden, North Carolina. Tracey Samuelson/Marketplace “I met John Edwards, Elizabeth Dole come in,”...
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