Arts Mar 15 Paul Solman, Patchwork Nation’s Chinni Talk Income Inequality in Ohio Business correspondent Paul Solman and Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently traveled to two counties in Ohio: Crawford and Delaware. Thirty years ago the counties had similar average incomes but they've grown apart. The town of Galion…
Economy Mar 15 Paul Solman and Dante Chinni Talk Economic Inequality in Ohio EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul Solman and Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently traveled to two counties in Ohio - Crawford and Delaware. Thirty years ago they had similar average incomes but today, they've grown apart. The town of Galion in…
Economy Mar 14 A Snapshot of Economic Inequality Across our ‘Patchwork Nation’ EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul Solman and Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently traveled to Ohio's Crawford and Delaware counties to examine economic inequality. In a preview of the upcoming story, which is slated to air on Tuesday's broadcast, we're…
Economy Mar 11 Japan’s Earthquake, Tsunami: What We’re Reading on Economic Impact Editor's Note: Paul Solman is traveling today but we here at Making Sen$e wanted to share a list of reports we've been following on the financial impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Though it's too…
Economy Mar 11 What We’re Reading: Economic Impact of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul Solman is traveling today but we here at Making Sen$e wanted to share a list of reports we've been following on the financial impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Though it's too soon to say…
Economy Mar 09 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified With all the strife over public sector unions, including irate e-mails in response to our pension coverage on the program, we thought we'd lighten the mood today by sharing some recent political cartoons.
Economy Mar 08 Tool$ Tuesday: Tips For Lessening the Pinch at the Pump You may have noticed that gas prices are up rather dramatically, in tandem with the drama in the Middle East and North Africa. No coincidence, obviously. The fear of supply disruptions, sabotaged wells, turmoil in general, has driven up the…
Economy Mar 07 Further Thoughts on Friday’s Job Numbers February's 192,000 net new jobs breaks down into 222,000 jobs added in the private sector, 30,000 jobs dropped by government. This provides evidence for one side of the economic policy debate of the moment, you could even say "of…
Economy Mar 04 February Unemployment Numbers: Good, But Don’t Pop the Champagne The unemployment numbers for February are in and though economist Peter Morici says " Don't Break Out the Champagne Just Yet," the data are encouraging. There are two separate surveys, remember - of "establishments" (places that employ folks) and "households"…
Nation Mar 03 Feelin’ Lousy- Financially Groovy In Song EDITOR'S NOTE: Last month, we featured a week-long series of songs by our country crooning friend Merle Hazard about the Euro-debt crisis: Spain, Ireland, Italy and Germany, and an encore of the infamous Greek…