Mar 09 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified By Elizabeth Shell With all the strife over public sector unions, including irate e-mails in response to our pension coverage on the program, we thought we'd lighten the mood today by sharing some recent political cartoons. Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch Banks, Retailers Clash Over Move to Cap Debit Card ‘Swipe Fees’ Banks, retailers and lawmakers are preparing for a showdown over hidden "swipe fees" banks charge retailers when consumers make debit card purchases. Judy Woodruff talks with the American Bankers Association's Nessa Feddis and the National Retail Federation's Mallory Duncan about… Continue watching
Mar 08 The Public Worker Battle, Cartoonified As debates rage in government halls across the U.S., political cartoonists have taken to skewering all sides -- and making points while they're at it. Here's a few of our favorites. Continue reading
Mar 08 Republican Leader Hints at More Short-Term Spending Bills Even as the Senate was preparing Tuesday to vote on two different proposals for funding the federal government until Sept. 30, the third-ranking Republican in the House said his party was prepared to pass another short-term spending measure in order… Continue reading
Mar 08 Conflict over Bangladeshi Micro-lender is ‘Political’, Some Say By Larisa Epatko A Bangladeshi court has upheld the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of the micro-lending Grameen Bank he founded, in a move his supporters are calling politically motivated. Continue reading
Mar 08 Diabetes Data Reflect Health, Income and Socio-Economic Divides Living a healthy lifestyle is not easy in the U.S.; keeping fit can be tough in the land of supersizes and never-ending pasta bowls. But the health problems aren't the same everywhere, and in a paper released Tuesday, the Centers… Continue reading
Mar 08 Making Sen$e Tool$ Tuesday: Tips For Lessening the Pinch at the Pump By Paul Solman You may have noticed that gas prices are up rather dramatically, in tandem with the drama in the Middle East and North Africa. No coincidence, obviously. The fear of supply disruptions, sabotaged wells, and turmoil in general have… Continue reading
Mar 08 Tool$ Tuesday: Tips For Lessening the Pinch at the Pump By Elizabeth Shell You may have noticed that gas prices are up rather dramatically, in tandem with the drama in the Middle East and North Africa. No coincidence, obviously. The fear of supply disruptions, sabotaged wells, turmoil in general, has driven up the… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch Should U.S. Tap Strategic Reserves Amid Middle East Unrest, Rising Oil Prices? The average U.S. gas price is up 14 cents a gallon over last week, due in part to unrest in Libya and elsewhere. Gwen Ifill discusses what factors shape oil prices and what the U.S. could do to help control… Continue watching
Mar 07 More Thoughts on Latest Jobless Numbers, Mexico’s Drug War By Paul Solman February's 192,000 net new jobs breaks down into 222,000 jobs added in the private sector and 30,000 jobs dropped by government. This provides evidence for one side of the economic policy debate of the moment, you could… Continue reading