With foreclosed homes still littering the American landscape, federal and state officials announced Thursday a $25 billion deal between 49 states and five mortgage giants designed to give relief to homeowners and hold banks accountable for abusive practices.
A new birth control mandate was under duress this week as Roman Catholic officials said it violated Church teachings and Republicans said it threatened religious freedom.
Rachel Simon's "The Story of Beautiful Girl" explores empathy and tolerance in the form of a love story where characters with disabilities overcome big obstacles. Judy Woodruff and Simon discuss how society deals with disabilities and how they are portrayed in literary works.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s international reporting and analysis.
Online coverage of the arts from Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters.
On-the-ground reports from Ray Suarez on health issues around the world.
Track how 12 different U.S. communities adapt to changing economic times.
Profiles, readings and conversations with contemporary American poets.
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Paul Solman explains the ins and outs of the global economy.
Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
Purpose-built videos for teachers supported by lesson plans with content-based standards.
Bringing the views of ordinary citizens to the national discussion on the important issues of the day.
Coverage of the critical issues in science and technology reporting.
Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
A cricket player-turned-politician is the talk among Pakistan's middle-class youth, but will his popularity translate into votes?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army continues to blast away at the city of Homs and on Thursday we spoke with someone living in the middle of the conflict.
In politics, the language of choice often comes loaded. School choice. Abortion rights. Public option. Proponents embrace these descriptions to put the best possible face on otherwise contentious issues.
When it comes to lowering the high school dropout rate, many school leaders have found that something fairly basic works: the ABCs -- Attendance, Behavior and Class.
Under mounting pressure, the Obama administration today proposed an "accommodation" to a mandate that religious groups cover employee birth control.
Social Security was originally designed as a "pay-as-you-go" system in which each succeeding generation of workers is supposed to take care of the last. all workers are charged a "payroll" tax, as are their employers. (The employee half has been suspended again until Feb. 29.) That money is supposed to provide for today's retirees.
Four years ago, Mitt Romney ended his presidential campaign at the Conservative Political Action Conference. This time around, he hopes to give his current White House bid a jolt with a speech he is set to deliver on Friday.
Two years after first lady Michelle Obama launched the "Let's Move!" campaign, we take stock of her progress in the fight against childhood obesity -- both the high-profile successes and equally loud criticism.
"Could you please talk to Richard Wilkinson or Kate Pickett about income inequality?" a reader asks Paul Solman. "According to them, social mobility tends to be stronger in more equal societies, which contradicts Richard Epstein's views about inequality being an incentive for growth."
Student loan debt in America is now nearing $1 trillion. Need to Know reports on the "debt generation" as young people face a dilemma: accumulate thousands of dollars in debt for a college degree or skip college and risk never qualifying for a higher-paying job.
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The Maldives are dealing with political turmoil as police and protesters clash in the capital and the island nation's president was forced to resign this week. ITVS features the documentary "The Island President" that gives exclusive access to now former President Mohamed Nasheed.
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Okfuskee County has the highest poverty rate in Oklahoma with many people in small, rural towns struggling to find jobs. State Impact Oklahoma reports on the rural poverty that's been going on for generations in these rural areas and others like it across the country.
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Feb. 9, 2012
After nearly 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists have reached a crystal clear underground lake -- two miles beneath the solid ice of the continent of Antarctica. The breakthrough could unearth creatures that have survived 20 million years without seeing daylight and give clues about life elsewhere in the solar system.
