Arts Apr 05 Subway poetry project connects NYers Madeline Schwartzman’s mission is connect people in what she sees as an increasingly individualized society. Every day as she travels by subway Madeline asks fellow commuters to write a poem in her notebook. Some refuse, some accept, and now more…
Nation Apr 05 Organization offers free tax help The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program is a nationwide organization of tax preparers available to help low-income taxpayers. Last year alone, VITA helped prepare almost one and a half million individual tax returns completely free of charge.
Nation Apr 05 Is your tax preparer actually prepared? Each year about 42 million tax returns are prepared by tax professionals who are unaccredited and unregulated by the IRS. After a plan to regulate them was struck down by a federal court last year, there's more regulation on hairdressers…
Episode Apr 04 Friday, April 4, 2014 Tonight on the program, we examine the March jobs report which shows a boost of nearly 200,000 new jobs but stubborn long-term unemployment. Also: Michael Lewis talks "Flash Boys" and high-frequency traders, Afghan women share stories of surviving abuse, Shields…
World Apr 04 Remembering AP photojournalist Niedringhaus, who found grace in the face of war Veteran AP journalists Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon were traveling with election workers, soldiers and police in Khost province in Afghanistan when a police commander approached and shot them. Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was killed and Gannon was hospitalized.
World Apr 04 Banished or battered at home, Afghan women share stories of surviving abuse Despite some progress in the treatment of Afghan women since the 2001 fall of the Taliban, there are thousands of females accused of so-called moral crimes who have been jailed or have fled to safe houses in fear of their…
Economy Apr 04 'Flash Boys' investigates how high-frequency traders anticipate Wall Street's next move faster Much of the stock market trading that occurs today is done with computer servers, completing hundreds of millions of orders in a system known as high-frequency trading. Author Michael Lewis has made this practice the subject of his latest book,…
Politics Apr 04 Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including a Supreme Court ruling that lifts campaign donation limits, as well as public commentary for a pro-baseball player’s paternity leave.
Nation Apr 04 News Wrap: Officials say argument may have been motive in Fort Hood shooting In our news wrap Friday, Army officials at Fort Hood said a mass shooting by Spc. Ivan Lopez was likely triggered by an escalating argument. Also, a federal judge in Cincinnati announced he would strike down part of Ohio’s ban…