Business

Economy

Summer Travel Season Expected To Heat Up

1:46pm May 23, 2014

by David Schaper

AAA predicts that more Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend than any other since the start of the Great Recession. Those who do may find higher air fares but gas prices have leveled off.

Queue Listen Now

Economy

Unpaid Court Fees Land The Poor In 21st Century Debtors' Prisons

9:50am May 23, 2014

by Joseph Shapiro

Debtors' prisons were outlawed in the United States back before the Civil War. But an NPR state-by-state survey found that people still get sent to jail for unpaid court fines and fees.

Queue Listen Now

Political Rhetoric Bogs Down Future Of Keystone XL Pipeline

7:52am May 23, 2014

by Jim Zarroli

Claims for and against the pipeline are overblown. It won't make much of a difference on climate change, and it likely won't help the U.S. become energy independent.

Queue Listen Now

Russian Economic Forum Boycotted Over Ukraine Crisis

9:18am May 22, 2014

by Jackie Northam

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is seen as Russia's answer to the economic gathering in Davos, Switzerland. The Obama administration has been pressing U.S. corporations not to attend.

Queue Listen Now

On The Internet, A Penny Is Nothing To Sneeze At

9:18am May 22, 2014

by David Kestenbaum

It's hard to find anything in a store that costs 1 penny. There is one place where people still dream of 1 cent sales: the Internet. NPR's planet money team reports on the value of the virtual penny.

Queue Listen Now

JPMorgan Chase Announces Detroit Investment

9:21pm May 21, 2014

by Sarah Hulett

JPMorgan Chase will invest $100 million into the Motor City. The bulk of the money will go to small business development, blight removal and job training. Michigan Radio's Sarah Hulett reports.

Queue Listen Now

General Motors says its OnStar 4G LTE connection will allow cars to act as a mobile Internet hub.

National

For Automakers, Internet-Connected Cars Are A Balancing Act

9:21pm May 21, 2014

by Sonari Glinton

General Motors is putting 4G capabilities directly into its vehicles. But analysts say connecting your car to the Internet poses a challenge to automakers: how to balance safety with convenience.

Queue Listen Now

Wave This Scanner Over Your Plate, Get A Nutritional Analysis

11:43am May 20, 2014

Renee Montagne reports on a tiny hand-held device that you wave over your food and find out the chemical components and calories.

Queue Listen Now

Legal experts say it's too soon to know the impact of a European court ruling that will require Google to remove some links upon request.

World News

European Ruling On Removing Google Links May Leave A Mess

8:31pm May 16, 2014

by Aarti Shahani

Europeans now have the right to have search results about them deleted from online databases. But legal experts say each of the EU's 28 countries could interpret the decision differently.

Queue Listen Now

How Food Companies Court Nutrition Educators With Junk Food

2:41pm May 16, 2014

by NPR Staff

Corporate sponsorship of professional events for nutritionists has been on the rise. But should the gatekeepers of nutrition information be taking free meals and snacks from McDonald's and Hershey's?

Queue Listen Now