Oct 24 WATCH: Vice President Pence delivers remarks amid tax plan push By Joshua Barajas The vice president delivered a speech today that focused on the GOP's goal of overhauling the tax code. Continue reading
Oct 23 7 tips for talking to your aging parents about money By Kathleen Burns Kingsbury Fifty-four percent of adults admit that they would rather talk to their kids about sex than their parents about aging. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 3:43 NAFTA renegotiations hit impasse, raising doubts about its future By PBS News Hour The North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the world’s largest free trade zone 23 years ago. This summer, the U.S. began renegotiating NAFTA in a bid to reduce a trade deficit with Canada and Mexico -- but the talks,… Continue watching
Oct 20 The steep economic cost of contact sports injuries By Ray Fair The economic costs associated with contact sports injuries are often overlooked in the broader debate about the safety of football and other sports. Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch 7:24 How these famous women used food as social status By Paul Solman Every food story is an economic story, says author Laura Shapiro. In "What She Ate," Shapiro offers tales of female empowerment or self-definition by way of the kitchen and dinner table, cooking up portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Helen… Continue watching
Oct 18 Why this Social Security boost is no boon for lower earners By Philip Moeller Millions of people receiving Social Security and Medicare will suffer next year from financial indigestion. Here's why. Continue reading
Oct 18 Column: GOP tax cuts would make the rich even richer By John Komlos At its core, the GOP tax plan was made by the 1 percent for the 1 percent. Continue reading
Oct 16 A major sticking point in the Republican tax plan, explained By Daniel Bush The state and local tax deduction has become a key sticking point for Republicans negotiating tax reform. How the tax break gets handled will help determine the final price tag of the tax legislation Republicans hope to pass by the… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch 9:55 More older Americans than ever are struggling with student debt By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman The nation’s $1.4 trillion student debt burden doesn’t just fall on young graduates, it’s affecting older Americans, too. The number of people age 60 and older with student loans has quadrupled in the last 10 years. NewsHour Weekend’s Megan Thompson… Continue watching