While NYC Businesses Are Starting To Rebound, Many Are Still On Shaky Ground In New York City's COVID-19 epicenters, small businesses are seeing signs of recovery with more people vaccinated. But there are still challenges such as overdue rent and the delta variant. Camille Petersen
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Sues NASA Over A Lunar Lander Contract Given To Rival SpaceX In April, NASA chose Elon Musk's SpaceX to receive a highly sought-after $2.9 billion contract. It would involve the first spacecraft to land humans on the moon since 1972. Sharon Pruitt-Young
Siblings In Texas Drop Their Lemonade Stand To Mine Cryptocurrency Ishaan Thakur, 14, and his sister Aanya, 9, earn tens of thousands of dollars every month mining cryptocurrency. They have dozens of computers able to make billions of calculations every second.
Wall Street Is Paying Over $100,000 To Junior Bankers. For Many, That's Not Enough Wall Street has a big problem on its hands: Many of the young people it needs to fill its talent pool are having doubts about working in the industry. David Gura
The Future of The Labor Movement After Richard Trumka NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with author and former New York Times labor reporter, Steven Greenhouse, about the labor movement's direction after the death of Richard Trumka, the former head of the AFL-CIO.
Opinion: Remembering NPR's Neal Conan Neal Conan, who died Aug. 10, hosted NPR's Talk of the Nation with "immaculate knowledge of all subjects, arcane and obvious, and exquisite courtesy with callers and guests," NPR's Scott Simon says. Scott Simon
Survivors Laud Apple's New Tool To Spot Child Sex Abuse But The Backlash Is Growing Apple's new feature to fight child sexual abuse is encouraging to families of survivors. But privacy advocates are trying to convince Apple to drop its plans, fearing they could lead to surveillance. Bobby Allyn
'The Indicator': The Time The U.S. Paid Off All Its Debt The Senate is set to go on break without raising the debt ceiling, prompting grievances among Washington lawmakers. But the only time in history the debt was paid down, it didn't go quite as planned. Stacey Vanek Smith
Child Care In The U.S. Is Broken. The White House Has A $225 Billion Plan To Help In the pandemic, child care has gotten the attention of policymakers like never before, and billions of dollars in emergency funds have stabilized the industry. Biden wants more. Andrea Hsu
Wages Are Increasing, But So Are The Costs Of Essentials Like Rent, Food And Gas Consumer prices rose 5.4% in the 12 months ending in July, matching the highest rate of inflation in nearly 13 years. The cost of rent, food and gasoline continues to climb. Scott Horsley
