Piggy Bank Award

Kris Keller gets the Marketplace Piggy Award for making sacrifices to stay on budget.

A 22-year-old college grad dropped $11 on a domain name and poured all of her Web 2.0 talents into creating the ideal job application for a social media director position.

This week's Piggy Award goes to a money-smart teen who practices what she raps.

A Big Y supermarket clerk helps a Connecticut woman from falling victim to a scam.

Ten-year-old Richard Chapel mowed lawns for a whole summer for a new basketball hoop.

Jacqueline Byers' salary is in the low $40,000 range, but she budgets, tracks her spending and saves up for what she really loves -- travel.

Our plastic porcine pal heads to Wisconsin this week, to the home of a man who cooked his way to his wife's heart on Valentine's Day.

A marine declares his love for his wife of five years, who along with love diligently sent him burned copies of Marketplace Money every week through two tours of duty.

Listeners share what they would do if Congress were to pass legislation to make home refinancing easier -- putting more money in homeowners' pockets.

This week's winner thought ahead and created an emergency fund for her and her husband.