• A poet's ode to the meaning of work

    A poet's ode to the meaning of work

    Sep 05, 2016 06:15 PM EST

    ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-XxgwM0Yvk What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it ...

  • Shields and Rubin on Trump's staff shift and Clinton's 'self-inflicted' damage

    Shields and Rubin on Trump's staff shift and Clinton's 'self-inflicted' damage

    Aug 19, 2016 11:37 PM EST

    ... Trump campaign, phases one and two. We have a new -- Mark, a new campaign manager. We have Paul Manafort out after some stories about his work in Ukraine. We know that one of the new folks coming in is from Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon. What do we make of all ...

  • Hispanics see shift in Trump's immigration rhetoric

    Hispanics see shift in Trump's immigration rhetoric

    Jul 31, 2016 01:20 PM EST

    ... Trump will consider. "He realizes that there are a lot of good people that are in the shadows. He wants some proposals on how to work on that," said Ohio-based televangelist Frank Amedia, who is helping to lead the effort. A record 27.3 million Latinos will be eligible ...

  • Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Jul 20, 2016 04:56 PM EST

    ... is also concerned about issues like regulation - a topic the candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., mentioned briefly in his speech Tuesday. "Why should we work our butts off as small business people when we're going to have tons of regulations dumped on us? It wears on us after ...

  • Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Aug 27, 2015 01:39 PM EST

    Patients receiving common operations in the daytime fared no worse in the short-term if their attending physician worked a hospital graveyard shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not, according to a new study examining the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons. Patients whose physicians worked from ...

  • Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Mar 09, 2015 09:53 PM EST

    ... union members. Unions, by law, are to represent all the workers at a plant whether they voted to join it or not.” The “right-to-work” bill, or “freedom-to-work” legislation, removes the fee that non-union members had to pay to unions representing their work place. Without the ...

  • Ebola efforts shift from keeping up with new cases to eliminating the epidemic

    Ebola efforts shift from keeping up with new cases to eliminating the epidemic

    Feb 12, 2015 12:56 AM EST

    ... business, science and technology has transformed the effectiveness of this response and frankly has transformed a lot of how America projects its development and humanitarian work around the world. JEFFREY BROWN: Well, so for this next phase, what kind of presence will still be there?  What kind of infrastructure will ...

  • Free health clinics shift gears as their patients qualify for insurance

    Free health clinics shift gears as their patients qualify for insurance

    Aug 07, 2014 08:51 PM EST

    While a few free health clinics have shut their doors in Arkansas and Washington, most expansion-state non-profit free clinics are reassessing their business strategies. Medicaid offers the potential to give their patients better access to specialists, diagnostic testing and hospital care, and that's created a sense of unease for operators of the clinics that for...

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    Why not give money instead of a gift? Evidence from the world of work

    Dec 25, 2013 03:10 PM EST

    // Paul Solman speaks with psychologist Dan Ariely about the surprising effect of monetary bonuses on performance. With the holidays upon us and the end of the year approaching, lucky workers may be enjoying bonus season. Whether it's the big checks offered on Wall Street or the retail shopping sprees some employers are now offering,...

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    Rural Colorado residents vote to secede as metro areas shift more liberal

    Nov 11, 2013 06:05 PM EST

    Colorado's state capitol in Denver.Photo by PBS NewsHour's Mary Jo Brooks DENVER -- The nation's newest state, if rural Colorado residents had their way, would be about the size of Vermont but with the population of a small town spread across miles of farmland. There wouldn't be civil unions for gay couples, new renewable energy...