Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/07/535987825/episode-782-budget-time
Summary: The Planet Money team uses a ten minute block of time to demonstrate the allocation of the U.S. federal budget. Each program gets the same percent of ten minutes as the percentage it makes up of the total budget.
Original Air Date:July 7, 2017
Length: 15:49
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/14/life/fewer-smokers-means-looming-defaults-state-bonds
Summary: In 2016 states collected over $25 billion from tobacco settlements. Marketplace looks at the criticisms of how that money is allocated and what states will do when that money runs out.
Original Air Date: April 15, 2016
Length: 6 minutes 59 seconds
