Jun 07 Positive Signs in the Housing Market? Tamp Down That Excitement By Dante Chinni Measuring the health of the U.S. economy continues to be a dodgy game. Witness last week's job numbers that were nowhere as good as many had hoped. But a more complicated measure of improvement may be the U.S. housing… Continue reading
Jun 07 Weekly Poem: ‘Attention’ Philip Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2008 for his book of poems, "Failure." He is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. Schultz's latest book, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems,"… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Microfinancing Gives Housing Hope to Residents of Kenya’s Slums Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. Continue watching
Jun 04 Adventures of Art Critic Barbara Pollack in ‘The Wild, Wild East’ By Tom LeGro The first time art critic Barbara Pollack went to China in 2004, she says the art scene reminded her of the wild, wild west: there were some brave pioneers and a general sense of lawlessness -- no established rules or… Continue reading
Jun 04 Doctors Group Launches Ad Campaign Against Medicare Cuts The American Medical Association on Thursday launched a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign aimed at stopping a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians. AMA President Dr. James Rohack said the "U.S. Senate turned its back on our… Continue reading
Jun 04 Gwen’s Take: The Perils of Ambition, and Does Obama Have Any Coattails? By Gwen Ifill On a hot summer day in 2008, I visited the Civil Rights Institute in downtown Birmingham with the man who thought he was going to be Alabama's first African-American governor. The time seemed right for an ambitious young lawmaker… Continue reading
Jun 03 Pakistani Women Make Community, Income Through Art n 2003, Sumeena Nazir founded the Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy, a women's development agency, in her hometown of Chakwal to provide rural women an opportunity to form support networks in their own neighborhoods. Continue reading
Jun 03 Pew Study: More Americans Watching, Sharing Online Video By Hari Sreenivasan Much like you’re likely about to do, more Americans are watching online video, a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found. Kristen Purcell, associate director for research, stopped by The Rundown to discuss the… Continue reading