Noel King is currently a correspondent for Planet Money and was formerly a senior reporter for the Marketplace Wealth and Poverty desk.
Food prices are rising, but Americans still spend less of their disposable income on food than people in other countries.
Companies are increasingly taking stands on a host of hot-potato issues.
A delay in receiving students' federal grants could sink Corinthian Colleges
Humanitarian organizations have found it difficult to raise money for victims of the conflict in Syria. Now, a growing crisis in Iraq adds more vulnerable people.
Is it really true the economy loses hundreds of millions every Friday the 13th?
Print media faces declining sales. How do celebrity magazines like People keep up?
Assortative mating is a term, borrowed from biology, which means that humans tend to be attracted to those like themselves.
JPMorgan invests $100 million in homes, businesses and job training in Detroit.
USAID today announced a $5 million partnership with Texas A&M's World Coffee Research center to tackle a costly coffee fungus.
It wasn't until the early 1960s that we even drew the poverty line.
