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September 25, 2011 Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET   Enlarge Dan Evans In deference to Titus 2:3-5 and 1 Timothy 5:14, Rachel Held Evans tried to stay “busy in the home,” honing her cooking, cleaning and hospitality skills. She is seen here with homemade [...]

We kid. Sort of. Here's an ad Patagonia ran in the NY Times encouraging people not to get sucked in by the faux events that are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Faux events that have become bizarre, if not outright dangerous, spectacles of mass consumption. Thing is Patagonia, when you don't have much money, a [...]

On Monday, the president released a plan on how to pay for his $447 billion jobs bill and reduce the nation’s deficit. The plan aims to slash $3 trillion from the debt over the next decade, which involves Medicare and Social Security cuts and tax increases for the wealthy. Host Michel Martin speaks with NPR’s [...]

A sizable quantity of companies is submitting for personal bankruptcy below Chapter 11 because of towards the recessionary financial circumstances globally. The phenomenon isn’t restricted to little and mid-size businesses. Even big companies are combating to file for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy by lying off a number of their workers, price reducing, and shutting down [...]