Aug 30 How Do I Manage My Parents’ Money When They Can’t? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman The hardest part of managing a parent's money is figuring out how to make it last. Photo courtesy of Flickr user JBStafford. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on… Continue reading
Aug 29 Neighborhood as Destiny? What’s Unknown about Stork Drops and Mobility? In the wake of the release of a major economic mobility study, there's still a lot we don't know about social mobility in this country. "Children in the Tenement District, Brockton, Mass.", courtesy of Jack Delano via Library of Congress… Continue reading
Aug 29 Neighborhood as Destiny? What’s Unknown about Stork Drops and Mobility? By David Grusky and C. Matthew Snipp In the wake of the release of a major economic mobility study, there's still a lot we don't know about social mobility in this country. "Children in the Tenement District, Brockton, Mass.", courtesy… Continue reading
Aug 28 The Alternative American Dream: Inclusive Capitalism // In this 1987 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour report, Paul Solman reported on workers' attempt to buyout the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and spoke with Chris Mackin, a leader in the worker ownership movement. Paul Solman: Worker ownership: When I… Continue reading
Aug 28 The Alternative American Dream: Inclusive Capitalism By Christopher Mackin By Chris Mackin // In this 1987 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour report, Paul Solman reported on workers' attempt to buyout the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and spoke with Chris Mackin, a leader in the worker ownership movement. Paul Solman: Worker… Continue reading
Aug 27 Syria’s Fragmented Future By Leah Clapman EmbedVideo(7242, 514, 320); Andrew Tabler, Senior Fellow at the The Washington Institute for Near East Policy joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Washington DC to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria. Today White House Spokesman Jay Carney made the administration's… Continue reading
Aug 26 Could Even Suze Orman’s Social Security Advice Be Wrong? By Laurence Kotlikoff You can't collect just your spousal benefit before full retirement, explains Larry Kotlikoff. Photo courtesy of Jim McGuire via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his… Continue reading
Aug 26 Could Even Suze Orman’s Social Security Advice Be Wrong? By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff You can't collect just your spousal benefit before full retirement, explains Larry Kotlikoff. Photo courtesy of Jim McGuire via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security… Continue reading
Aug 23 Virtual Reality: the Terrors of Poe’s Pit, the Joys of Michelangelo’s David By Paul Solman // Never seen Michelangelo's David? With a little help from virtual reality, Paul Solman discovers it won't require a trip to Italy. Paul Solman: Like it or not, virtual reality , or "VR," is coming. Soon. And for those who… Continue reading
Aug 22 How to Close the Youth ‘Skills Gap’: South Carolina’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Economist Bob Lerman and apprenticeship expert Nicholas Wyman write that apprenticeships, long popular in Germany, may be taking off in South Carolina. Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Bob Lerman began life on the NewsHour as a… Continue reading