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Unemployment fell in November, and so did the number of jobs lost. That upbeat report came Friday, as President Obama touted a major speech on job creation next week. Judy Woodruff talks to economists about what the numbers mean for the larger economic picture.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks to Margaret Warner about selling the Afghanistan surge to NATO allies.
As the Art Beat blog turns one, Jeffrey Brown looks back on the evolution of the NewsHour's online coverage of arts and culture.
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.
Betty Ann Bowser helps decode the debate over health care reform.
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.
The small village west of London my crew and I visited today was bustling with Saturday shoppers doing errands for Christmas, and for their daily lives. The Salvation Army Santas were ringing their bells, and greens and lights festooned the windows of every small shop.
Blogs can be fun because they offer the opportunity to climb into someone's head for a few minutes, and, in the case of this blog, The Rundown, you can travel behind the scenes as the NewsHour comes together each weeknight.
Over the past month I traveled with the Patchwork Nation team to five counties across the country to see what the recession has meant to them.
Several years ago, doctors and scientists faced a troubling fact: although black women in Chicago are less likely to get breast cancer than white women, they are much more likely to die from it. New research is starting to unravel the reasons why.
[Chicago Public Radio]
What recovery? With joblessness in double-digits and employers -- even prospering ones -- reluctant to hire, how are households coping in this fragile economy?
[WVIZ/PBS in Cleveland]
Journey down the 52-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River and meet the people helping it flow back into our public life and popular imagination.
[KCET in Los Angeles]
Dec. 4, 2009
Student reporters in Middlebury, Vermont, visit a local dairy farm to learn about the lives of the teenage immigrants who work there.
