Episode Apr 06 Sunday, April 6, 2014 On tonight's program, a look at new clues about the missing Malaysian jetliner. In our signature segment, boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico. And, are the jobs gained in the March unemployment report the same quality as those lost in…
Apr 06 What's the quality of the jobs gained in March? NewsHour takes another look tonight at the latest unemployment report. Bloomberg senior economist Nela Richardson speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about whether the the jobs counted as recovered are of the same quality as those lost in the Great Recession. Richardson…
World Apr 06 Boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico Mexico is now the third biggest trading partner of the United States. But with poverty afflicting half of the country's 120 million people, the country faces an uphill battle toward future prosperity. Correspondent Martin Fletcher reports from Querétaro.…
Episode Apr 05 Saturday, April 5, 2014 On PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturday, a Chinese ship hunting for Malaysian flight 370 detects an underwater signal that could be coming from the missing plane's black box. Later, in our signature segment, is your tax preparer really prepared? And, meet…
World Apr 05 Voters head to the polls in Afghanistan Millions of voters came out for the presidential elections in Afghanistan on Saturday in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the Taliban were ousted from power. The scene varied throughout the country with violence reported in some areas…
Arts Apr 05 Subway rider reads original poem Elizabeth Meriwether was approached by Madeline Schwartzman on the subway and asked to write a poem. Here she reads “Outpouring of My Emotion?”…
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…