Oct 05 With Such High Unemployment, Should the Foreign Worker Program End? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Carter Question: Given current employment, why is there still an H1-B program… Continue reading
Oct 04 Feinberg: Distance Not a Determining Factor in Paying Oil Spill Claims Since BP first announced it would establish a $20 billion fund to pay claims from the oil spill disaster along the Gulf Coast, one of the more vexing questions has been about what kind of role proximity to the disaster… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Increase in Homeless Pupils Poses Unique Challenge to Public Schools Special correspondent Lee Hochberg reports from Seattle on the rising homelessness for school-age children and the challenges that faces public schools trying to accommodate them. Continue watching
Oct 04 What's The Best 'Spending Yourself Out Of Recession' Argument? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Monday's query: Question: You recently answered a question about why stimulus spending is the government's responsibility. I… Continue reading
Oct 04 Weekly Poem: 'At the Counters Ball' By Tom LeGro John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in… Continue reading
Oct 04 Monday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra goes on strike. Continue reading
Oct 01 Feinberg: Gulf Oil Spill Claims Paid More Quickly, but Tough Calls Ahead By Murrey Jacobson Payments for claims tied to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are set to crack the $1 billion mark next week, but there are still at least 20,000 claims that have yet to be resolved and… Continue reading
Oct 01 U.S. Apologizes for 'Reprehensible' 1940s Syphilis Study in Guatemala U.S. officials apologized Friday for unethical medical experiments conducted in Guatemala more than 60 years ago, in which prison inmates were deliberately infected with syphilis. The experiments were conducted between 1946 and 1948 by Dr. John C. Cutler, a… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Student's Death Sparks Questions on Privacy in the Digital Age Student's Suicide Raises Digital Privacy Questions… Continue watching
Oct 01 Status Update: Facebook-Inspired Film 'The Social Network' Opens Last week, the NewsHour looked at "The Social Network", a film -- opening across the country on Friday -- about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. EmbedVideo(3430, 482, 304); Much has been written about how… Continue reading