More Americans say they experience bias in the workplace. Recent figures from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tell of a 60 percent rise in job discrimination, and 25 percent of those claims come from Muslim-Americans.

In 2009, workplace discrimination against Muslims rose 20 percent to a record 803 claims, according to federal data cited in the New York Times.

Newark Public Schools, which have been rated the worst in the country, have been given an infusion of $100 million from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  The gift is a bonanza, but it is also highlights a school system in dire need. 

Anthony Fraccia hoped that offering a job in Michigan at his small business — a part-time position that would become full-time depending on performance — he'd get plenty of applicants. But one potential employee who called told him they wouldn't take the job because "I make more on unemployment." It took a minute for it all to sink in, but it left Fraccia wondering if extending unemployment benefits was actually bad for business.

After seven weeks, thirty-three Chilean miners remain trapped underground in a partially collapsed gold mine. To help pass the time while waiting for rescue, authorities are sending various items down a 3.19-inch-wide supply line. Supplies range from food and water to magazines, Bibles, short stories, journals... and recently, an iPod with a variety of music.

One of the worst diplomatic disputes in years between the two most influential Asian nations is coming to an end. Japan is releasing the captain of a Chinese fishing boat captain who was detained after his ship collided with Japanese coastguards earlier this month. The Japanese said the collision was "deliberate, but not pre-meditated." Roland Burke, of our partner, the BBC, reports from Tokyo.

55 years ago, Allen Ginsberg wrote his beat generation poetic masterpiece, "Howl." Almost immediately after its publication in 1956, the poem's publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, was arrested and charged with obscenity. In a landmark legal case, a judge ruled in 1957 that the poem was not obscene.

A new movie, "Howl," starring James Franco, John Hamm, and Mary Louise Parker, follows the story of the poem and the man who wrote it.

On the morning Facebook CEO will announce his $100 million gift to Newark, New Jersey public schools, we're looking at billionaire philanthropists and the effectiveness of their influence.

Some of the biggest news in Forbes' list of 400 richest Americans is the growing wealth of 26-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg's net worth is currently estimated to be $6.9 billion; he is planning to donate $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey public school system. Cynics point out that Zuckerberg's generous philanthropy could be a crafted PR move scheduled a week before "The Social Network," a not-entirely-complimentary movie about Zuckerberg comes out. All the same, we wanted to know: how do billionaires spend their money? 

Today, one of the greatest screen villains of the past quarter century returns in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”

This time, Gordon Gekko, again played by Michael Douglas, returns to the investment banking world just in time to see it crash and burn ... and of course, in time to benefit from it crashing and burning.

But while some fans of Gekko and "Wall Street" are thrilled with the prospect of a sequel, we’re more interested in knowing whether the movie is good, the facts accurate, and what we might learn from it.

Takeaway Correspondent Andrea Bernstein is traveling the country, checking in with voters. Today, she's in Colorado, a key swing state in this mid-term election season. Up for grabs is a governor's race, a Senate race and key Congressional races. There are also two ballot propositions getting a lot of attention: one regarding abortion rights, the other attempting to block enactment of federal health care reform. Key issues for constituents are health care, abortion and immigration.

Bernstein has spoken with voters in Weld County and Jefferson County and found that voters from both parties are still unsure how they will cast their ballots this November.

In the U.S., she's considered a terrorist. At home in Pakistan, she's a hero. Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-educated, Pakistani neuroscientist was convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in a Manhattan Federal District Court on Thursday. The BBC's Adam Mynott reports live from Islamabad.

This week, the NAACP’s president, Benjamin Jealous, did something previously unheard of for the organization: He encouraged members of New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center to work with him and specifically, to attend the NAACP march for jobs and justice in Washington next month. 

Last week, things looked a lot different for aspiring gay and lesbian parents in Florida, where a ban on adoption by gay couples has been in place since the 1970s. But after 13 months, the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami struck down the ban, saying it was unconstitutional. One of the people rejoicing today is former television anchor Charles Perez, who joined us last week to talk about the ban.

Celeste Headlee is in Colorado today, a state where Democrats are struggling to keep their majority in Congress. Among the contested seats is the one belonging to Representative Besty Markey, of Colorado's fourth Congressional district. She's facing an uphill battle against her Republican challenger Cory Gardner, who is trouncing her in the latest polls. 

Representative Markey joins the program to talk about her reelection campaign. Takeaway correspondent Andrea Bernstein also gives us a feel of the political landscape in Colorado right now.

Renowned jazz pianist Henry Butler stops by KUVO in Denver, where Celeste is visiting today, to entertain us with a little morning music.