NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ted Rossman, industry analyst at CreditCards.com, about whether Apple's new credit card is disrupting the industry.
How much does where you live affect your shot at the American Dream? An overlooked government program from the nineties tried to answer that question. Recently, it has been getting new attention.
On their first date, Tom Gasko and his husband, Donnie Pedrola, talked for hours about vacuum designs. "Most people aren't that passionate about something," Pedrola tells Gasko at StoryCorps.
The administration unveiled a plan to reprivatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that has lending advocates worried. But any changes are likely to be gradual.
John Lansing will succeed Jarl Mohn as NPR's next CEO. Lansing is currently chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.
Employers added just 130,000 jobs in August, another sign that the economy is slowing. Job gains for June and July were revised downward. Factories, in particular, have seen a slowdown.
NPR's Noel King talks to economics journalist Binyamin Appelbaum, whose new book traces what he describes as a revolution in the way we think about the U.S. economy.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gilbert Gaul about his book, The Geography of Risk, which examines the cost of hurricanes in recent years and why federal tax dollars are covering more of those costs.
Los Angeles County's tech boom is gentrifying the city of Inglewood, which investors had historically overlooked. African American residents there are working to preserve the community they've built.