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Scott Paul and Gerald Taylor of the Alliance for American Manufacturing discuss a report on how manufacturing decline in the U.S. has left many African-American communities spiraling toward poverty.

How coinsurance hurts: If a drug costs $200, a patient may owe 20 percent of the cost, or $40, instead of a flat copayment of $20. The higher the cost of the drug, the bigger the coinsurance bite.

Fifties doo-wop singer Lee Andrews died Wednesday. His son, musician Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, spoke about Andrews in this archival Fresh Air interview. Originally broadcast June 23, 2013.

Why are some California reservoirs releasing water even though the state is going through an extreme drought? Turns out it's to prevent an even bigger disaster. But the strategy may change soon.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Elizabeth Collett, director of the Migration Policy Institute in Europe, about the recent deal struck between the EU and Turkey to return new asylum-seekers who arrived in Greece back to Turkey.

Obama will be the first American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928.

This school in Denver teaches its seventh-graders about the disease, the science behind it and the patience needed to deal with it.

The deadly attack comes less than a week after a car bomb killed more than three dozen people in Ankara, Turkey's capital.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with recently retired Boeing company employee Leslie Shook whose voice is used as part of the greeting and warning system of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet.

Recent bombings in Turkey attributed to radical Kurds have the country reeling. NPR's Melissa Block discusses the situation with Gonul Tol of the Middle East Institute.