Jan 02 Life Insights from a 100-Year-Old Manufacturing Worker By Paul Solman // While reporting on needle and tubing manufacturing firm Vita Needle in Needham, Mass., the NewsHour team met Rosa Finnegan. The company is known for its elderly workforce with its average worker 74 years old. But at 100, Finnegan is… Continue reading
Jan 02 Barney Frank: How Smart Is Congress? By Paul Solman // In an exit interview that aired on PBS NewsHour Dec. 26, economic correspondent Paul Solman spoke with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who plans to retire from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013. Watch this… Continue reading
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Dec 31 Watch Deadline Day Arrives: Congress ‘Very Close’ to Tax Deal, Unresolved on Deficit Deadline Day Arrives: Congress 'Very Close' to Tax Deal, Unresolved on Deficit… Continue watching
Dec 31 President Obama Says Deal ‘Within Sight’; Deficit Solution to Come Later EmbedVideo(5342, 482, 304); Despite President Obama's earlier optimistic message that a deal had been reached, Congress won't vote on a bill before midnight New Year's Eve, to avert the so called fiscal cliff. According to news… Continue reading
Dec 31 How to Delay Your Social Security and Get the Most for Your Spouse Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility. Photo by William Thomas Cain via Getty Images Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security… Continue reading
Dec 31 How to Delay Your Social Security and Get the Most for Your Spouse By Paul Solman Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility. Photo by William Thomas Cain via Getty Images Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes"… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch President Obama Discusses Efforts to Avert the Fiscal Cliff President Obama Discusses Last-ditch Efforts to Avert the Fiscal Cliff… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch Lawmakers Meet With President in Last-Ditch Effort to Avert the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Lawmakers Meet With President in Last-Ditch Effort to Avert the 'Fiscal Cliff'… Continue watching
Dec 28 Mistakes: Paul Krugman’s, Greg Mankiw’s (And My Own) Left, Paul Krugman (Photo by NewsHour). Right, Greg Mankiw (Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images). Paul Solman: Both Paul Krugman, of MIT, and Greg Mankiw, of Harvard, were teaching economics locally during my formative years as an economics correspondent. Continue reading