Feb 16 What's your story of long-term unemployment? By Elisabeth Ponsot When the federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired on Dec. 28, 1.3 million Americans lost their long-term unemployment insurance -- a number that continues to rise as people across the country exhaust regular state benefits. Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Union suffers significant loss in Tennessee By PBS News Hour Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted to reject what would have been United Auto Workers’ first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South. Jim Efstathiou of Bloomberg News speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the… Continue watching
Feb 15 Army sees steep increase in soldiers forced out for misconduct By Kayla Ruble The number of U.S. soldiers forced to leave the army for crimes and misconduct has risen sharply in recent years, according to an Associated Press report released on Saturday. Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch California's historic drought strains towns and farms in Sonoma County By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 14 Watch Closing the Gap: Mayor Michael Nutter on strengthening state, federal partnerships to fight poverty By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 14 Watch News Wrap: Volcanic eruption in Indonesia forces evacuation of 100,000 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 14 Now hiring: Ambassador to the Arctic By Andy Swab The State Department plans to appoint an ambassador to the Arctic, according to a letter released Friday from Secretary of State John Kerry. The new position comes as nations bordering the Arctic Ocean have scrambled to lay their… Continue reading
Feb 14 So long hair curlers and lonely salads, the new Getty woman has chutzpah By Sarah Sheffer A business woman standing in her cluttered office, an infant child chewing on her phone cord. The working mom juggling an iron, a baby and a cell phone in the air. The frazzled pregnant mother, on the phone while children… Continue reading
Feb 14 According to Pandora, Daft Punk fans are likely Democrats By Ruth Tam If you happen to be single on Valentine’s Day and in need of a personalized mix tape with no strings attached, Pandora is here for you. Next week, though, there might be a couple of obligations. The 14-year-old online radio… Continue reading
Feb 14 Hunters track killer tiger in India By News Desk Over the last seven weeks, 9 people have been killed by a Tiger roaming the fringes of one of India's last protected tiger habitats. Continue reading