Food assistance program SNAP looks set to pause from Friday.
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Each year, about 1,400 Spirit Halloween shops pop up across the U.S. Two student journalists, Isabel Jacobson and Adam Sanders, visited their local shop to meet the spirited employees who work there.
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Planet Money thought it was the perfect team to get into the board game business, since many games are all about economics. But making a game that's fun and teaches people about economics turns out to be hard.
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NPR alleges that CPB unlawfully yanked away a planned three-year contract worth $36 million in the face of intense pressure from the White House to sever ties with the radio network. -
President Trump said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "agreed to almost everything" in their nearly two-hour meeting in South Korea, which Trump said was "friendly." -
Car insurance premiums have increased at twice the rate of overall inflation. They've stabilized, at least for now, but more than half of Americans say the costs are painful. -
The cost of both new and used cars has soared in the last four years, and insurance, maintenance and the invisible costs like damage to our health add up to a much higher price tag.
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From delays and cancellations to food collection sites, Kaplan explains why the federal government shutdown continues to cause disruptions for air travelers.
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President Trump has confidently predicted striking a deal with China's leader, but it's unclear how final any negotiations will be after Thursday's meeting. -
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, because the central bank is more concerned about the job market than it is with battling inflation. -
Amazon is laying off 14,000 workers -- about 4 percent of its workforce. This is part of a larger trend by American companies. They're betting that they can grow without growing their workforces.
