Mar 14 Economics explains why you resemble your mate By Paul Oyer In this adaptation of "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating, " Paul Oyer explains how our decisions to stick with people whose backgrounds resemble our own lead to stagnant economic mobility. Continue reading
Mar 14 Lavrov says U.S. and Russia still at great odds over Ukraine crisis By Sam Lane Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that there is "no common" vision between the United States and his country over the situation in Ukraine, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading
Mar 14 Ban lifted, BP can resume work for U.S. in time for new Gulf oil leases By Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Under an agreement reached Thursday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than two dozen BP entities and its Houston-based oil production and exploration arm can secure new government contracts. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch How well do you know Pi? By Ellen Rolfes, Frank Bi and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Mar 14 Pi Day Quiz: How many digits can you name? By Frank Bi For math geeks, March 14 is a delicious holiday that celebrates one famous number -- pi or approximately 3.14. The mathematical constant, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, can be used to find the area… Continue reading
Mar 14 For profit college industry pushes back against proposed regulations on financial aid By Philip Elliott, Associated Press The proposed regulations would penalize career training programs that produce graduates without the training needed to find a job with a salary that will allow them to pay off their debt. Schools, for-profit or not, that don't comply would lose… Continue reading
Mar 14 High marks for cooks lifted rating for cheating nuclear missile operators at Minot By Robert Burns, Associated Press Airmen responsible for missile operations at Minot Air Force Base would have failed their portion of a major inspection in March 2013 but managed a "marginal" rating because their poor marks were blended with the better performance of support staff… Continue reading
Mar 14 Obama orders homeland security to review deportation program By Josh Lederman, Associated Press With prospects for real immigration reform fading, President Barack Obama is yielding to pressure from some of his staunchest allies and looking for ways to act without Congress to ease the suffering caused by deportation. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch What prevents the U.S. from signing the U.N. disabilities treaty? By PBS News Hour Opponents of U.S. ratification by Congress of a United Nations convention that pushes for equal rights for those with disabilities argue that it would give the U.N. jurisdiction over domestic laws. Judy Woodruff gets two views on the treaty from… Continue watching
Mar 13 Watch Crunching the costs and benefits of overtime pay reform By PBS News Hour President Obama has directed the Labor Department to update overtime pay rules for an estimated 5 million workers, but some business owners and Republicans are worried about economic effects for employers. Hari Sreenivasan gets debate on the overtime bump from… Continue watching