Apr 15 Watch Tax Day Protests Highlight Discord Over Government Spending Tea Party activists across the country used Thursday's income tax filing deadline as a platform to voice disputes over the growth of government, while the Obama administration stressed the importance of tax-funded programs. Jim Lehrer reports. Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch What Drives Motivation in the Modern Workplace? As part of his ongoing coverage making sense of financial news, business and economics corespondent Paul Solman reports on what drives people's behavior in the modern workplace. Continue watching
Apr 14 Spotlight City: Tax Day Town Hall in Tampa All week in Tampa, we've been exploring what Americans think about their government, including reactions to the foreclosure crisis, health care reform, federal spending and more. A pivotal part of our coverage: a town hall meeting where local residents were… Continue reading
Apr 14 Should We 'Delink' the Economics Nobel from the Other Nobel Prizes? Question: Can you do a story on the fact that many Nobel Prize winners and other scientists are trying, along with Peter Nobel, descendant of Alfred Nobel, to get the Nobel Committee to delink the prize in economics from the… Continue reading
Apr 14 Obama Calls for More Control Over Financial Derivatives President Obama called Wednesday for more oversight of derivatives -- the financial products that helped sink insurance giant AIG -- when he met with Congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House to push for financial reform legislation. Continue reading
Apr 14 Quake Kills Hundreds in China; Bernanke to Testify on Economy A series of powerful earthquakes slammed western China early Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 in remote Qinghai Province. The largest quake to hit the mainly Tibetan region, which is mostly populated by farmers… Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch News Wrap: Fed Warns Congress to Rein in National Debt In other news Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress and the President to begin reining in the deficit and a series of powerful earthquakes killed at least 400 people in western China. Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch Obama Presses for Financial Overhaul as Senate Fight Looms President Obama made a case for overhauling the nation's financial system today, in an attempt to win action in the Senate. Jeffrey Brown talks to financial experts for more on a reform bill's prospects. Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch Tracking Tax Dollar Spending in Florida In our continuing Spotlight City series about how people view the government, Judy Woodruff reports from Tampa on tracking Florida's federal tax dollars and the debate about how they are spent. Continue watching
Apr 13 Tampa Dispatch: Jamaica Native Hopes Green Card Will Open Door to a Job TAMPA, Fla. | On Monday's NewsHour, we heard Jennifer's Orr-Bryan's story of struggling to find work and keep her home as part of our look at how the economic downturn has rippled through our Spotlight City state… Continue reading