Aug 13 Watch 7:48 News Wrap: Death toll rises from China industrial blasts By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, the death toll from explosions at port facilities in Tianjin, China, rose to 50 and is still expected to increase. Also, China dismissed talk that it might allow a 10 percent currency decline after the… Continue watching
Aug 13 Is this 1917 law suffocating Puerto Rico’s economy? By Chris Bury The Jones Act, which requires everybody in Puerto Rico to buy goods from an American-made ship with an American crew, limits business owners and jacks up prices. Continue reading
Aug 12 You’re not retiring. Is joining Medicare Part A worthwhile? By Philip Moeller The answer may depend on your Social Security benefits. Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch 7:13 What does the yuan’s decline mean for the U.S.? By PBS News Hour What does a weaker yuan mean for China and the global economy? Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal and Orville Schell of the Asia Society join Judy Woodruff to discuss the economic and geopolitical factors. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch 5:26 From Google to Alphabet, what does the change mean? By PBS News Hour Tech giant Google is restructuring. A newly created holding company called Alphabet will now be the umbrella for its core business of Internet searching -- still called Google -- as well as other divisions like home automation and X Labs. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch 2:18 China rattles markets by devaluing its currency By PBS News Hour China devalued its currency Tuesday, a move to make the country’s exports cheaper and boost a slowing economy. In turn, the Yuan fell nearly 2 percent against the dollar, the most in a decade. Judy Woodruff reports. Continue watching
Aug 07 Watch 3:24 News Wrap: U.S. economy adds 215,000 jobs By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department's July jobs report revealed another solid month. Employers added a net of 215,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate held steady. Also, Kabul was rocked by bombings that killed scores of people. Continue watching
Aug 07 Why the jobs report data spell trouble for the Phillips curve By Kristen Doerer The Phillips curve assumes an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation rates. But today, both inflation rates and unemployment are low, contradicting some long-held economic assumptions. Continue reading
Aug 07 A supermarket owner’s secret to success in the food desert By Paul Solman Nearly 24 million Americans live in food deserts, low-income neighborhoods with no access to affordable, fresh, healthy food. As a result, people who live in these areas often have poor diets that can lead to higher levels of obesity and… Continue reading