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When the housing market numbers came out last month, many analysts noted signs that buying, selling and building appeared to have leveled off — and may have even declined a bit over the last year.

According to Realtor.com, the Minneapolis-St. Paul inventory was down, and the median housing price was the same as in February 2018. Prices have been dropping significantly in places like Dallas, Atlanta and Austin, as well.

This is partly due to a slowing economy and modest wage growth. But young people also are entering their home-buying years more cautiously than their predecessors.

What does it mean that millennials — people in their early 20s to late 30s — are entering adulthood with what the Federal Reserve called "lower earnings, fewer assets and less wealth"?

MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with two millennial financial experts, Jarim Person-Lynn and Bola Sokunbi.

In Washington, questions remain over who asked whom to do what - and whether that included snakes & alligators at the border. It has been another bumper week for big headlines. Join Joshua Johnson for The Friday News Roundup.

Schizophrenia, a condition that afflicts about 1 percent of the U.S. population, is a "chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves," according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Host Angela Davis explored schizophrenia with two guests, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month.

From the White House to the Capitol to congressional town halls — what’s being said about impeachment. We’ll hear it all and try to make sense of what it means on the next Politics with Amy Walter.

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What’s on the radio today: Oct. 4, 2019

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