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Noel King

Noel King is currently a correspondent for Planet Money and was formerly a senior reporter for the Marketplace Wealth and Poverty desk.

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  • An intern's desk.
    Jeff Dlouhy / Creative Commons

    Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's organization Lean In went looking for an unpaid editorial intern. The incident has highlighted the higher rate of women in unpaid internships.

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  • A fan tries out the Disney Infinity display at the E3 Gaming and Technology Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
    Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

    Disney is set to launch its Infinity toy-game hybrid products. Will the Mouse House do better with this game than earlier ones?

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  • Secretary of State Madeleine Albright looks  at damage from a bomb at the U.S. embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania where 10 people were killed and 72 injured from a bomb blast, at almost the same time as another bomb went off in Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998.
    ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images

    Fifteen years after the Al Qaeda bombings in East Africa, spending on embassy security has soared — and not just there.

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  • Edgar Perez sells cars at Bunnin Chevrolet in Culver City, California. Perez owns a compact car and says he'll keep buying small cars even after he gets his MBA. 
    Jolie Myers/Marketplace

    As breaking into the middle class becomes harder, car companies are finding new ways to attract an expanding base of less-affluent consumers. They're offering more small car models with better features than ever before.

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  • Al Davidson owns a 2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, which he takes off-roading on weekends. During the week he uses the Jeep to run his kids to sports practices and to get to work. He owns his own print shop in Orange County, California. 
    Jolie Myers/Marketplace

    When it comes to cars, there are brands for rich people — Mercedes, Audi, BMW — and there are cars for people of more modest means — Chevys, Fords, Toyotas. But just as many people at the bottom of the income ladder buy Jeeps as people at the top.

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  • Over the past three years, housing starts have nearly doubled.
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    President Obama will give a speech in Phoenix on Tuesday about housing and the middle class.

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  • A view of an Apple iPhone displaying the Facebook app's splash screen.
    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages

    Facebook says that mobile advertising now makes up more than 40 percent of the firm's ad revenue. But will users be turned off?

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  • President Barack Obama speaks on the Trayvon Martin case during remarks in the White House briefing room July 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama said, "Trayvon Martin could've been me, 35 years ago."
    Win McNamee/Getty Images

    Much was made of the way Trayvon Martin was dressed as a factor in his being perceived as dangerous. Many African Americans and other people of color say they are very careful about how they are viewed by others because it can impact their ability to get a job, or a raise or to even be safe.

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  • Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed details of top-secret surveillance conducted by the United States' National Security Agency regarding telecom data.
    The Guardian via Getty Images

    Edward Snowden is believed to be holed up at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, but he may be trying to figure out a way to get to Latin America, where he has been offered asylum by three countries.

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  • People walk through the grounds at the base for Mohamed Morsi supporters on the first day of Ramadan on July 10, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Oil prices are up to levels not seen in more than a year — blame Egypt, blame the economy, and blame yourself?

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