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marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
One Saturday afternoon every spring, you can wander around the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn and see live music everywhere for free — jazz groups playing on brownstone stoops, drummers playing in gardens, big brass bands playing in streets temporarily closed to cars.
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marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
What’s the first thing you thought about when you heard President Donald Trump was doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum? The price of groceries? Yeah, no, us neither. President Trump campaigned on the promise that he would lower prices, including food prices. But his decision to double tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50% is likely to have the opposite effect, including when it comes to grocery bills.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
Non-alcoholic beer is becoming more popular every year. Globally, sales grew 9% last year, according to the beverage data and analytics company IWSR. At the same time, sales of regular beer fell by 1%. By the end of this year, IWSR projects non-alcoholic beer will displace ale as the second largest beer category by volume worldwide. Though, for now it still only has about 2% market share, compared to lager’s 92%. It used to be, if you wanted a non-alcoholic beer, there weren’t a whole lot of options.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
More parents are struggling financially these days than a few years ago, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households survey. Just 65% of parents with kids under 18 say they’re “doing OK financially or living comfortably.” That’s down 10 percentage points since 2021. Among adults who don’t have kids, 76% say they’re doing OK financially. Life has gotten a lot more expensive since 2021.
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3 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
As extreme weather becomes more common across the country, a new report from the University of Alabama’s Center for Risk and Insurance finds that fortifying homes makes a big difference. When Hurricane Sally hit the state in 2020, homes that had been built or retrofitted to stand up better to intense wind and rain fared much better than homes that had not. And it saved insurance companies, and homeowners, millions. Twenty years ago, Alabama was hit hard by back-to-back hurricanes: Ivan and Katrina.
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