Sep 29 Watch Europe Faces ‘Terra Nova’ in Efforts to Avoid Financial Crisis The German government won a critical vote to greatly increase financial support for a European bailout fund, which could ease the way to a partial default in Greece. Jeffrey Brown discusses the German vote and the worldwide worries over European… Continue watching
Sep 29 World Inequality: Trot the Globe Without Leaving Your Seat To accompany our ongoing NewsHour series on economic inequality, we present today an interactive world inequality map based on data from the World Bank. We confess; this isn't exactly "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" But this quiz… Continue reading
Sep 29 World Inequality: Trot the Globe Without Leaving Your Seat To accompany our ongoing NewsHour series on economic inequality, we present here an interactive world inequality map based on data from the World Bank. We confess; this isn't exactly "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" But… Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch Inequality Hurts: The Unhealthy Side Effects of Economic Disparity As part of our series on economic inequality, Paul Solman investigates the health effects that inequality can have on individuals and society. To determine the hidden costs, he speaks with epidemiologists, former six-figure income earners who are chronically unemployed and… Continue watching
Sep 28 Can Social Security, Medicare Be Considered Wealth? Editor's note: In our recent program Do Social Safety Net Programs Shrink Gap in U.S. Economic Inequality? - above - Paul Solman interviewed economist Robert Lerman about his take on wealth inequality in the United States. Lerman… Continue reading
Sep 28 Can Social Security, Medicare Be Considered Wealth? Editor's note: In our recent program 'Do Social Safety Net Programs Shrink Gap in U.S. Economic Inequality?' - above - Paul Solman interviewed economist Robert Lerman about his take on wealth inequality in the United States. Lerman… Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch Cities Hit Hard by Slump, Adding to Cloudy Economic Picture As the nation's economic woes mount, evidence of continuing trouble can be found in city revenues, the housing market and high unemployment rates. Gwen Ifill discusses the big picture with Patchwork Nation Director Dante Chinni, Howard Wial of the Brookings… Continue watching
Sep 27 Housing Prices Are Moving On Up A home for sale in Tempe, Ariz. Flickr photo by 'Nick Bastian Tempe, AZ.' Moving on up. Or more like "creeping." That's one way of wording the latest Case-Shiller housing price numbers, up 3.6 percent since their 20-city… Continue reading
Sep 27 Housing Prices Are Moving On Up A home for sale in Tempe, Ariz. Flickr photo by 'Nick Bastian Tempe, AZ.' Moving on up. Or more like "creeping." That's one way of wording the latest Case-Shiller housing price numbers, up 3.6 percent since their 20-city… Continue reading
Sep 27 Tracking Economic Woes, From Cities to Housing to Family Income We take a broad look at the nation's economic woes on Tuesday's NewsHour -- troubles ranging from unemployment to housing to household incomes. Patchwork Nation has been examining much of this data in recent months. Project director Dante Chinni will… Continue reading