Economy Jul 05 Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent The United States has slid in rankings of industrialized nations putting youth to work. Jobless rates for young black dropouts are especially high. Photo courtesy of Pascal Broze/ONOKY via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum is…
Economy Jul 05 Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent By Paul Solman The United States has slid in rankings of industrialized nations putting youth to work. Jobless rates for young black dropouts are especially high. Photo courtesy of Pascal Broze/ONOKY via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist…
Economy Jul 04 The 237th Fourth of July: Do We Never Stop to Smell the Roses? Is the harried pace of economic change making us forget the serenity of places like Walden Pond, above? Photo courtesy of Steve Dunwell/Photolibrary via Getty Images. Paul Solman: On July 4 -- a day off for many Americans -- some…
Economy Jul 04 The 237th Fourth of July: Do We Never Stop to Smell the Roses? By Paul Solman Is the harried pace of economic change making us forget the serenity of places like Walden Pond, above? Photo courtesy of Steve Dunwell/Photolibrary via Getty Images. Paul Solman: On July 4 -- a day off for many…
Economy Jul 01 The Late Gary David Goldberg, Manager Extraordinaire // Paul Solman catches up with his college chum, Gary Goldberg, the producer of the hit television series "Family Ties" in this 1988 segment on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Goldberg died last month. On June 22, just shy of his 69th…
Economy Jul 01 The Late Gary David Goldberg, Manager Extraordinaire By Paul Solman // Paul Solman catches up with his college chum, Gary Goldberg, the producer of the hit television series "Family Ties" in this 1988 segment on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Goldberg died last month. On June 22, just shy…
Economy Jun 27 How to Conduct Beethoven and Mozart If You’ve Never Picked Up a Baton // Paul Solman gets a lesson in conducting music from Diane Wittry, conductor of the Allentown Symphony. In shooting our story on "starving artists," which is slated to air on PBS NewsHour Thursday, Allentown Symphony Conductor Diane Wittry tried to…
Economy Jun 27 How to Conduct Beethoven and Mozart If You’ve Never Picked Up a Baton // Paul Solman gets a lesson in conducting music from Diane Wittry, conductor of the Allentown Symphony. In shooting our story on "starving artists," which is slated to air on PBS NewsHour Thursday, Allentown Symphony Conductor Diane Wittry tried to…
Economy Jun 21 Why Those Who Feel They Have Less Give More What is it that wealth does to people? On Thursday's Making Sen$e segment, Paul Solman traveled to the University of California, Berkeley, to examine the connection between wealth and happiness. His report on the psychology of wealth, which appears…
Economy Jun 21 Why Those Who Feel They Have Less Give More What is it that wealth does to people? On Thursday's Making Sen$e segment, Paul Solman traveled to the University of California, Berkeley, to examine the connection between wealth and happiness. His report on the psychology of wealth, which appears…