“Spaces like this are really important for not just sports and not just representation, but for the people who come to be a part of that community,” said Jenny Nguyen, owner of the Sports Bra in Portland, Oregon.

After raising prices last fall, Kristin Thalheimer Bingham, co-owner of Dean’s Sweets, describes her expenses and product pricing.

“All we were doing was changing the channel,” says Jenny Nguyen, founder and owner of The Sports Bra.

Kristin Thalheimer Bingham, co-owner of Dean’s Sweets in Portland, talks about preparing for the holidays and rising costs.

The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from the cities, which it says “have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics would categorize Neil’s job as a “service occupation,” along with a wide range of other workers. Two in 10 people work jobs in that category.

Eighty percent of respondents to the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll say manufacturing is "very" or "somewhat" important to their local economy.