• Selling office space and happy hour to a rising economy of freelancers

    Selling office space and happy hour to a rising economy of freelancers

    Nov 06, 2015 01:46 AM EDT

    ... and Tel Aviv. The company added two more sites just during the week we were shooting. The company was valued earlier this year at $5 billion. But within six months, the valuation doubled to $10 billion. As "Bloomberg" magazine points out, however, you could build and own the World Trade ...

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    Payday Lending

    Apr 03, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... SPOKESPERSON: People take a payday loan, and then they get caught in this debt treadmill. JEFFREY KAYE: The debate over payday lending has moved into the legislative arena. Consumer groups are pressing for more regulations... SPOKESMAN: Senate Bill 1501 by Senator... JEFFREY KAYE:...While the payday loan industry, which opposes ...

  • What exactly is Congress doing on infrastructure?

    What exactly is Congress doing on infrastructure?

    Jun 16, 2021 10:40 PM EDT

    ... bipartisan Senate infrastructure plan picked up momentum today, after more senators signed onto it. Now 20 senators, 10 from each party, back the outline, doubling the number of senators who support it from just yesterday. Lisa Desjardins explains what's at stake and the potential potholes, as the negotiations continue ...

  • How's he doing? Americans weigh in on Biden's performance

    How's he doing? Americans weigh in on Biden's performance

    Jan 17, 2022 06:31 PM EDT

    "That Build Back Better plan, it seemed like no one knew what was in the bill except for the cost," he says. He also faults Biden for not pushing earlier to end the filibuster in the Senate that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation. Last week, for the ...

  • Sen. Joe Manchin says Build Back Better bill is 'dead'

    Sen. Joe Manchin says Build Back Better bill is 'dead'

    Feb 01, 2022 08:48 PM EDT

    ... latest comments illustrated the election-year challenges facing his party as it struggles to resuscitate parts of the package and win over voters weary of the two-year-old pandemic and coping with the worst inflation in decades. "What Build Back Better bill?" Manchin said Tuesday, using the legislation's ...

  • White House 'confident' Congress will pass Build Back Better bill

    White House 'confident' Congress will pass Build Back Better bill

    Nov 09, 2021 11:50 PM EDT

    ... value, targeted investments in the American people and the American economy that are fully paid for. YAMICHE ALCINDOR: How confident are you that you have the votes to get this Build Back Better Act passed? And I also wonder what -- you're in the room. What are you telling lawmakers ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Build Back Better plan, Biden overseas trip, VA Gov. race and more

    Brooks and Capehart on Build Back Better plan, Biden overseas trip, VA Gov. race and more

    Oct 29, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    Now, I don't want to down-sell this. There's still good stuff in there, the corporate taxes and all that stuff and the subsidies for the health care. But it's not what it was because they can't pass it if they drop anything. So, they just ...

  • A divided Congress grapples with rising gas prices, COVID relief and immigration

    A divided Congress grapples with rising gas prices, COVID relief and immigration

    Apr 28, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    ... understand more about in the month of May. Judy Woodruff: And, finally, Lisa, the Biden agenda overall, a number of things he talked about during the campaign last year, there's the thing that was originally called Build Back Better. What about all that? Lisa Desjardins: So much to talk ...

  • What to watch in Biden's 2022 State of the Union

    What to watch in Biden's 2022 State of the Union

    Mar 01, 2022 09:06 PM EDT

    ... from the Build Back Better bill, which was in part tanked by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s opposition. Administration officials told reporters Monday to expect the president to lay out a plan that would lower costs for families -- also a core goal of the stalled Build Back Better. What do ...

  • WATCH: Biden speaks on infrastructure, funding bills

    WATCH: Biden speaks on infrastructure, funding bills

    Oct 05, 2021 02:32 PM EDT

    ... a wide range of initiatives packaged under the imprecise slogan of “Build Back Better.” A series of crises, from Afghanistan to COVID-19, along with the convoluted legislative process have hampered the White House’s ability to promote the massive package or even say definitively what will be in the ...