Feb 22 Tool$ Tuesday: YOU Cut the Deficit As the President and Congress wrestle over the particulars of a trimmed-down federal budget, the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, funded by longtime budget nudge Pete Peterson, offers this tool for lowering the debt load -- all… Continue reading
Feb 22 Preview: Picturesque Guatemala Overwhelmed by Violence, Poverty By Talea Miller // Senior correspondent Ray Suarez, just back from a reporting trip, describes Guatemala as a land of exquisite beauty, but also of exquisite agony. Violence against women is systemic and widespread - part of an overall pattern of violence… Continue reading
Feb 22 Brinksmanship Continues in Wisconsin Protesters react to an appearance Monday by Wis. Gov. Scott Walker at a news conference in the state capitol. Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, the traditional, televised fireside chat still… Continue reading
Feb 21 What Do Wisconsin Protests Say About Organized Labor? By Paul Solman Having begun my journalism career in college in the '60s, I figure I've been covering the labor movement for nearly half a century - a half century of relative decline. It's easy to understand in retrospect. After World… Continue reading
Feb 21 What Do Wisconsin Protests Say About Organized Labor? By Francine Uenuma Having begun my journalism career in college in the '60s, I figure I've been covering the labor movement for nearly half a century - a half century of relative decline. It's easy to understand in retrospect. After World War II,… Continue reading
Feb 18 High Tech and High Fashion as Obama Woos Silicon Valley Leaders President Barack Obama talks with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg; White House photo by Pete Souza The splashy news out of President Obama's trip to the high-tech haunts in the West is that the CEO of Facebook, Mark… Continue reading
Feb 18 The Machine Breakers We Have Always With Us By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: A long and interesting email arrived recently from one Jean Maier. Continue reading
Feb 18 NIIP’ing International Investment Confusion in the Bud By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: The epic e-epistle from one Jane Maier comes to an end… Continue reading
Feb 17 In Wis., Thousands Protest Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill By Lauren Knapp Thousands of demonstrators have descended on Wisconsin's Capitol building this week to protest a bill that would strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights. On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers left the state in an attempt to stall voting on the… Continue reading
Feb 17 Federal Spending, Visualized: 2012 Budget Proposal Edition With the unveiling of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal this week, we're updating our post from last week about the many ways news organizations and graphic designers have visualized the federal budget. Below are what some organizations have done… Continue reading