Measuring Wealth, One Big Mac at a Time
How do you compare the wealth of nations? An economics professor at Princeton University thinks such a big question has a bite-sized answer: buy a Big Mac. Orley Ashenfelter is the author of the Big...
View ArticleUnderstanding Senior Citizen Hangouts
After a conflict between elderly Korean residents in Queens and a local McDonald's where the seniors congregate, Bobbie Sackman, Director of Public Policy at the Council of Senior Centers and Services...
View ArticleWorkers Claim McDonald's Is Taking Them to the Cleaners
A suit filed Thursday in Federal Court in Brooklyn alleges McDonald's is systematically cheating thousands of workers out of money they are owed.The National Employment Law Project, working with...
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34 Arrests at Fast Food Worker Protests
Thursday morning, protesters calling for an increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers held a rally outside of the Times Square McDonald's, where 19 people were arrested. During the lunch rush,...
View ArticleA Workers’ Flashmob Inside a McDonald’s
Thousands of fast food restaurant workers took to the streets in cities across the country on Thursday. Their movement began two years ago, with a protest in New York, demanding a wage of $15 an hour...
View ArticleLabor Activists Say $1 Raise Not Enough for McDonald's Workers
McDonald's is raising wages for tens of thousands of employees, but fast food workers and their labor union allies say that doesn't go far enough.Several dozen of them rallied outside a McDonald's in...
View ArticleHow One Man Can Crash the Stock Market
Five years have passed since the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly a 1,000 points in a matter of minutes, and we're still trying to understand what happened. In the months after the crash,...
View ArticleA Goldman Sachs App for the Average Joe?
A few of the country's biggest brands are making some strange moves. Goldman Sachs, a bank accustomed to multi-billion dollar dealings with wealthy customers, will make smaller loans to less wealthy...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Wikipedia does GIFs, take an aural whistle stop tour of Tarantino's work, a billionaire lifestyle magazine pairs yachts with inspirational quotes, McDonald's and...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — Drake can('t) dance, two covers for the price of one, the AP's perfect mistake, and the cheapest dubstep song ever recorded win the internet this week. 1. I'm Lovin'...
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Behind the Balloons: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
In 1927, a giant inflatable Felix the Cat lifted off the ground (just barely; he was filled with air, not helium) in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and cartoon character balloons have been a...
View Article#AskTheMayor About Trump; Update on Trump Towers; Future of Reproductive...
Coming up on today's show:Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, talks about his recent meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and the post-election climate in the city.Philip Rucker, Washington...
View ArticleBehind the McDonalds Fortune
Lisa Napoli, journalist and author of Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away (Dutton, 2016), talks about Ray and Joan Kroc, their money and lasting...
View ArticleRace and Eugenics in America, Michael Keaton on "The Founder"
Princeton University Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joins us to discuss his new book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. Director Dawn Sinclair Shapiro joins us to discuss...
View ArticleHow McDonald's Became "McDonald's"
Actor Michael Keaton and Director John Lee Hancock join us to discuss their new film, “The Founder.” The film tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac...
View ArticleLeonard Lopate Weekend: Race in America, Michael Keaton, One Refugee's Story
Princeton University Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. discusses his book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. Michael Keaton and John Lee Hancock to discuss their new film,...
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‘I knew that it would be a long, hard fight,’ says activist who wants to...
About a year and a half ago, then-President Barack Obama at the White House reunited second-generation fast food worker Terrence Wise with his mother, whom Wise had not seen for 10 years. Obama...
View ArticleMcDonald's Workers Allege Sexual Harassment by Colleagues
On Tuesday, 10 women who have worked at McDonald's locations across nine U.S. cities lodged sexual harassment complaints against the company. One of the complaints comes from a woman as young as 15,...
View ArticleMcDonald's Workers Allege Sexual Harassment by Colleagues
On Tuesday, 10 women who have worked at McDonald's locations across nine U.S. cities lodged sexual harassment complaints against the company. One of the complaints comes from a woman as young as 15,...
View ArticleMcDonald's Big Mac Celebrates 50th Birthday
Thursday marks the 50th birthday of the Big Mac, invented in Uniontown, Pennsylvania by a franchise owner. The burger has become an icon, but McDonald’s is reducing the number of U.S. stores and...
View Article322- The First Straw
A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. The invention...
View Article#MeToo Meets McDonald's
Last week, McDonald’s workers held a strike demanding the company enforce its sexual harassment policy and provide better training for managers and employees. It was the first multi-state strike to...
View ArticleKen Burns on Mayo Clinic, McDonalds & 'Me Too'
Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joins us to discuss the new documentary he co-directed with Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers titled, “The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science.”...
View ArticleMayo Clinic's History, 'Me Too' Comes for McDonalds, Can College Be Free?
Ken Burns discusses the new documentary he co-directed with Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers titled, “The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science.” Sarah Jones talks about her recent article, “The...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Meets the Mafia
“McMillon$” is a 6-part documentary series that explores the FBI’s investigation into the McDonald’s Monopoly scam leading all the way to the New York Mafia. Filmmakers James Lee Hernandez and Brian...
View Article406- A Side of Franchise
There are many books about McDonald’s that criticize the company for its many sins, and author Marcia Chatelain has read all of them. But her book comes at this famous fast-food restaurant from a...
View ArticleHelen Rosner’s Summer Drinks
As the U.S. military fully withdraws from Afghanistan, the founder of the country’s only all-girls boarding school anxiously watches the resurgence of the Taliban—which brutally suppresses the...
View ArticleThe Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.” Chatelain looks at how McDonald’s leveraged the...
View ArticleThe Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.” Chatelain looks at how McDonald’s leveraged the...
View Article207 - The Golden Arches in Black America
Criticisms of fast food often focus on the industrialized system that produces the burgers, buns and fries, or the food’s negative health impacts. Some criticisms have noted the deep ties between...
View ArticleFranchises Are Fighting Back
In recent months, franchisees of companies from the Hilton Inn to Subway have been pushing back against their corporate franchisors, claiming they are being squeezed out of profits. And a new study...
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