CNN Marketplace 2006-01-20

Rachel Lee: We got a break from inflation in December with a 10th of a percent decline in consumer prices. But economist 1 Steve Cochrane with "economy.com" notes the core rate of inflation taking up food and energy cost is up slightly.
Steve Cochrane: It's a little bit indicative that the high energy prices, although easing a bit, are beginning to filter through in the prices of er, broader goods and services. Er, (we're) a little bit worrying from inflation going forward.
Rachel Lee: Inflation shot up last year at the fastest pace in 5 years, 4.3% with most of the increase blamed on record energy prices.

Rachel Lee: A Novato woman is sentenced to 9 years in prison, her husband 12 for planting a severed 2 finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili 3.

Rachel Lee: It pays to be married. Richard Wybrow explains the results of an Ohio State University study.
Richard Wybrow: According to researcher Jay Zagorsky, there are financial benefits to getting married.
Jay Zagorsky: Wealth started improving the year after marriage. So it's, that only took one year.
He found that married people accumulated 93% more wealth than single or divorced people. In fact , to just getting divorced's just as paying the bank account.
Jay Zagorsky: That wealth starts going down 4 years before the divorce is actually finalized 4. After the divorce is finalized, the wealth starts improving but does not pick up the same way that wealth picks up (基于电话采访线路原因，这里的picks up读的像takes up) for single or married people.
Richard Wybrow: Zagorsky points to the fact married people who share a home also share expenses. Richard Wybrow, CNN.

Rachel Lee: Trains and buses are getting more crowded. The American Public Transportation Association says trips on public transportation jump more than 3% from July through September last year. The group's president William Millar says people responded to high gas prices, then kept riding the subway or bus.
William Millar: It appears that many of those new riders continue to ride. Er, we have over 2 dozen cities around the country that are reporting at least double digit 5 increases in their transit 6 ridership even after gas prices fell.
Rachel Lee: Transit ridership's also affected 7 by weather and the economy.

CNN Radio Marketplace, I'm Rachel Lee.

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