Aug 17 Watch Amid Attention From Obama, GOP, How Is Midwest's Economy Doing? On the last day of his bus tour through the Midwest, President Obama's aides said he will outline a national jobs plan after Labor Day. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the economy in Midwestern states with Iowa State University's… Continue watching
Aug 17 Children in Poverty: How Are Kids in Your State Faring? The latest numbers on poverty among U.S. children are so striking that they make you do a double take. In 2009, 31 million kids were living in families with incomes below twice the federal poverty threshold. That's… Continue reading
Aug 17 Send Us Your Questions on Wealth, Inequality Update: Thanks for all your questions! We'll post some of the answers here soon. Editor's Note: Our story on Tuesday's program has certainly struck a chord. In the first in a series on economic inequality in the United… Continue reading
Aug 17 Send Us Your Questions on Wealth, Inequality Update: Thanks for all your questions! We'll post some of the answers here soon. Editor's Note: Our story on Tuesday's program has certainly struck a chord. In the first in a series on economic inequality in the United… Continue reading
Aug 17 Woodruff: The Income Gap, Right Under Our Noses Knowing the PBS NewsHour was planning a series of reports on income inequality in America, launched with economics correspondent Paul Solman's excellent report on Tuesday (if you haven't seen it yet, it's a must), my ears have been attuned… Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden's Super-Duper Rich EmbedVideo(1266, 514, 320); Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of… Continue reading
Aug 17 Sweden's Super-Duper Rich By Paul Solman // Update: Watch Land of the Free, Home of the Poor and Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble? to see the first two parts of Paul Solman's ongoing series of reports on U.S. economic… Continue reading
Aug 17 Campus and Careers Counties Brace for Potential Debt-Ceiling Deal Fallout University of Michigan School of Dentistry graduates take an oath to uphold high professional standards at a May graduation ceremony in Ann Arbor -- a Campus and Careers county type; Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr.com/umdent In the two… Continue reading
Aug 17 President Obama to Present Jobs Plan in Post-Labor Day Speech By David Chalian President Obama feeds the press as he walks out of Kernel Cody's Popcorn Shoppe in LeClaire, Iowa. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. In addition to flooding the airwaves and newspapers with images of President Obama in the heartland hearing from… Continue reading
Aug 17 European Markets Jittery Despite Debt Talks, Vice President Biden Visits China Despite Tuesday's meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European markets fell Wednesday amid concerns over sovereign debt crises and the euro. The market dropped sharply, but London's FTSE 100 index closed down 0.5 percent at… Continue reading