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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Dylan Miettinen
At Marketplace, we do the numbers every weekday. Much of the data we report on is released by an independent agency under the Department of Labor: the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The consumer price index, the producer price index, the jobs report — they all come from BLS. Marketplace isn’t the only organization that relies on this data — it’s utilized by researchers, policymakers and businesses to make informed decisions.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Leanna Byrne |Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Nova Safo |Will Chalk
Mar 19, 2025Changes to the way we sign up for Social Security will require more people to show up to field offices in person. Segments From This Episodeby Nancy Marshall-GenzerAdditional identity requirements for those signing up for Social Security could boost visitors to field offices that already have long waits. A presidential appointee has removed more than a dozen board members at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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1 month ago | 
marketplace.org | Leanna Byrne |Sabri Ben-Achour |Nancy Marshall-Genzer |David Brancaccio
Mar 31, 2025We’ve that President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are coming for a while, so why the sharp market reaction now? Segments From This EpisodeOn Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to announce a tsunami of new tariffs. Let’s discuss with Julia Coronado, founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives and a professor at UT Austin.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Dylan Miettinen |Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Heard on: Mark Moore is the co-founder & CEO of Mana Nutrition, an organization that produces nutritional peanut paste distributed to children experiencing malnutrition. Mana now employs roughly 130 people and has a production plant located in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Leanna Byrne |David Brancaccio |Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 28, 2025
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Dylan Miettinen
Mark Moore is racing to make up for lost time. He’s CEO of Mana Nutrition, a nonprofit that makes a nutritional paste from peanuts for starving children. Most of Moore’s packets of nutritional paste are sent to Africa. Earlier this year, Moore got a series of emails from his main client, USAID. “It’s been a kind of a yo-yo effect,” Moore said. “First, there was an email in January.”That email said Moore’s contracts were paused and that he should stop work.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Leanna Byrne |Nancy Marshall-Genzer |David Brancaccio |Savannah Peters
Mar 25, 2025
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Dylan Miettinen |Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Among the federal agencies that DOGE has its eyes on is the Social Security Administration. Less than three months into the current Trump administration, Social Security has been in the headlines a lot: Offices are expected to close. At least 7,000 workers are expected to be cut. Identification requirements have been changed, too. And a lot of those changes may mean limited access and additional delays to already protracted services.
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2 months ago | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Dylan Miettinen
Changes to the application process for Social Security benefits will force more people to make in-person appointments at already crowded field offices. The new policy, announced Tuesday, is intended to limit fraud. The Social Security Administration says that there will be additional identity requirements for people applying for benefits or changing their direct deposit information by phone starting March 31. They’ll have to use what the agency calls Internet ID proofing.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
marketplace.org | Nancy Marshall-Genzer |Nancy Marshall-Genzer
On Friday, for a second day, current and former U.S. Agency for International Development workers are being allowed into USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. for 15 minutes to pack up their belongings. But the federal government’s layoffs are being felt across the country, not just in D.C. Patricia Gross, 47, has worked as an independent government contractor — a gig worker — since 2018. She, her husband and three young sons live just outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
