APM Weekly: August 14 – August 18, 2023

Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks with Kali Grant, Associate Director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality, about the economic benefits of subsidized employment programs in the last 50 years.
  • Since Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont in 2011, government agencies helped buyout 170 homes in flood plains. That work seems to have paid off – to an extent – in the floods that devastated the state in early July. Where houses once stood, flooded rivers poured into grassy fields instead. But other houses were swamped, and some owners are already inquiring about buyouts. Vermont has been fairly active around buyouts in recent years, but hundreds more may be needed. And Vermont’s need pales in comparison to coastal areas of the country. Marketplace’s Henry Epp reports.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • MMR will be exploring how downtown areas in cities are recovering from pandemic slowdowns, with a series of feature stories from reporter Nova Safo. New research shows one of the biggest factors in whether or not a city is bouncing back is the mix of available jobs in the area. The series will concentrate on California, with looks at Fresno and San Francisco.
  • MMR will also be collaborating with our editorial partners at the BBC to examine the state of tourism and travel amid the busy summer season. The BBC has taken a look at several aspects of this, including the cruise industry, overcrowding and its detriments, and the hotel industry.

Marketplace Tech

Monday August 14: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Axios’ Ryan Heath about the current AI sentiment in the US.

On Point

**Meghna is away this week. Deborah Becker hosts Monday – Friday**

  • Monday August 14: When police respond to someone having a mental health crisis it can have tragic consequences. Some advocates and police officers are trying to change that. We look into efforts underway to rethink policing and mental health and who should best respond to behavioral health emergencies.

  • Tuesday August 15: Postpartum depression affects 1 in 7 mothers and even 1 in 10 fathers and most suffer in silence. A new pill offers new hope but it’s not the only recent advance. We hear about the growing understanding in the medical and mental health professions of this potentially life-threatening condition.

  • Wednesday, August 16: Overdose deaths for Black people in America have skyrocketed. For those aged 15 to 24 the increase was as high as 86 percent. On Point looks into what’s driving that increase and what can be done to combat it.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 18 – New episodeWe’re thinking about food and families this week with Michaele Weissman author of The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand and Barkha Cardoz, entrepreneur, author, writer and wife of the renowned, late chef Floyd Cardoz and head of Cardoz Legacy, celebrating the food, flavor and fun of India’s culinary heritage.

Performance Today

  • Leif Ove Andsnes performing from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
  • William Hagen and Andrei Ionita perform the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello from the Aspen Music Festival
  • Balourdet String Quartet perform Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade at the Strings Music Festival in Colorado Springs
  • Louis Langree leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Samuel Adams: Variations
  • Jennifer Frautschi and Max Levinson perform Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
  • Jessica Horsley leads Basel Sinfonietta in a performance of “Ethiopia’s Shadow in America” by Florence Price

APM Presents special of the week

Witness: The Labor Movement

Air Window: August 28 – September 30, 2023

A collection of stories related to strikes, campaigns and successes for workers rights around the world. Pulled from the BBC’s Witness History program, this specially-curated hour will bring first-hand accounts of significant moments in the labor movement from the US, UK and elsewhere.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.