Sep 27 Survey: Health Care Premiums Soar for Many Employees As the economy sputters and many firms struggle to keep their health benefits, the news officially became even bleaker on Tuesday: Premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage shot up 9 percent last year. That's significantly more than the average increase… Continue reading
Sep 27 Greece Says it Will Receive Bailout Funds, Typhoon Lashes Philippines By News Desk Greece's finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, has said his country will receive the next installment of bailout funds in order to avoid defaulting on its debt and further destabilizing the global financial market. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is in… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Amid New Strikes in Greece, ‘a Constant Tension in the Air’ The Greek Parliament is set to vote Tuesday on a key part of a new austerity package that would include a new property tax paid through electricity bills. Jeffrey Brown discusses efforts to keep the nation from defaulting with freelance… Continue watching
Sep 26 Is the Conventional Wisdom on Social Security Correct? By Paul Solman From "Why Social Security?" (1937). Social Security Administration pamphlet explaining need for the new system in terms of the transition from rural to urban-industrial society. Illustration by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, photo via flickr user Tobias Higbie. Paul Solman answers… Continue reading
Sep 26 Is the Conventional Wisdom on Social Security Correct? From "Why Social Security?" (1937). Social Security Administration pamphlet explaining need for the new system in terms of the transition from rural to urban-industrial society. Illustration by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, photo via flickr user Tobias Higbie. Paul… Continue reading
Sep 23 Which Makes a Better Investment: Gold or Canned Soup? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Name: Charles Meyrick Question: What good is gold? In your article on John Williams,… Continue reading
Sep 23 Which Makes a Better Investment: Gold or Canned Soup? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Name: Charles Meyrick Question: What good is gold? In your article on… Continue reading
Sep 22 A Clarification on Medicare and Medicaid From Our Last Inequality Report By Lee Koromvokis Many viewers took us to task today for failing to acknowledge in our report on inequality Wednesday night that custodial nursing home care is usually paid for by Medicaid, rather than Medicare. // They are correct: Medicare generally does… Continue reading
Sep 22 A Clarification of Medicare and Medicaid From Our Last Inequality Report Editor's Note: Many viewers took us to task for failing to acknowledge in our report on Wednesday's program that custodial nursing home care is usually paid for by Medicaid, rather than Medicare. They are correct: Medicare… Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch Markets Plunge Despite Latest Fed Efforts to Prop Up Economy Markets plunged around the world on Thursday amid mounting fears of a global economic recession. Jeffrey Brown discusses what caused the sell-off and the Federal Reserve's latest efforts to prop up the economy with The Economist's Greg Ip and RDQ… Continue watching