• Smaller cities hit hardest by airline mergers

    Smaller cities hit hardest by airline mergers

    Sep 13, 2015 09:59 PM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS ANCHOR: A new Wall Street Journal analysis finds ticket prices at the nation's ten busiest airports-- including Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver-- have been stable, increasing around 1 percent on average from 2007 to 2014 -- while airlines reduced the number of passenger seats available by 1 ...

  • Twitter Chat: Merit vs. need-based scholarships

    Twitter Chat: Merit vs. need-based scholarships

    Aug 19, 2015 10:30 PM EST

    ... who writes about financial planning to pay for college for Forbes, Sara Goldrick-Rab (@saragoldrickrab), a professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Daniel Porterfield (@DanPorterfield) President of Franklin and Marshall College, Jamey Rorison (@IHEPTweets) Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and ...

  • Are Michigan’s pristine lakes at risk from aging pipelines?

    Are Michigan’s pristine lakes at risk from aging pipelines?

    Jul 08, 2015 11:05 PM EST

    ... Energy. The Canadian company operates the largest crude oil and liquids pipeline system in the world. Line 5 is 645 miles long. It stretches from Wisconsin across Michigan's upper and lower Peninsulas and terminates in Ontario, Canada. The 30-inch pipeline splits into two 20-inch lines when it ...

  • Obama's overtime proposal explained and why it matters

    Obama's overtime proposal explained and why it matters

    Jul 03, 2015 08:53 PM EST

    ... Obama proposed raising the overtime salary threshold to $50,400 in an op-ed for the Huffington Post. And yesterday, Obama headed to La Crosse, Wisconsin to lay out his proposal. "Now, this is an issue of basic fairness,” Obama told a crowd, "If you work longer, you work harder ...

  • Hispanic leaders urge Republican presidential candidates to condemn Trump

    Hispanic leaders urge Republican presidential candidates to condemn Trump

    Jul 03, 2015 03:44 PM EST

    ... Republican race, Trump said Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Video by PBS NewsHour The businessman has refused to back down, although he insists his remarks were misconstrued. "My statements have been contorted to seem racist and ...

  • Labor Secretary Perez: government unions have the right to require members to pay their 'fair share'

    Labor Secretary Perez: government unions have the right to require members to pay their 'fair share'

    Jun 30, 2015 10:32 PM EST

    .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }Labor Secretary Thomas Perez spoke to PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff Tuesday on the Supreme ...

  • Why North Dakota’s oil fields are so deadly for workers

    Why North Dakota’s oil fields are so deadly for workers

    Jun 24, 2015 11:45 PM EST

    ... a podcast and public radio program, looks into why life in the oil fields has become so risky. JENNIFER GOLLAN, Reveal: When Brendan Wegner left Wisconsin for the Bakken oil fields, his parents had no idea North Dakota was the deadliest place to work in America. KEVIN WEGNER, Father of ...

  • What's next after Democrats derail trade bill?

    What's next after Democrats derail trade bill?

    Jun 12, 2015 10:56 PM EST

    ... pretty clearly unmoved. REP. BRAD SHERMAN, D-Calif.: Did he persuade me that that's a good policy? No. LISA DESJARDINS: But Ron Kind of Wisconsin did pledge support. REP. RON KIND, D-Wisc.: For us as a caucus now not even to give him the decency or the respect ...

  • Threatened with closure, one historically black university charts a path to recovery

    Threatened with closure, one historically black university charts a path to recovery

    May 19, 2015 04:38 PM EST

    unique field brought her to South Carolina State, but that isn’t what she’d say the campus’ biggest selling point is today. “That family environment taught me to get comfortable being uncomfortable. It pushed me,” she said. “Just being in Wisconsin this semester it showed me that I felt ...

  • Clinton makes voters the focus of her 2016 announcement

    Clinton makes voters the focus of her 2016 announcement

    Apr 14, 2015 12:03 AM EST

    Hillary Clinton released a video on Sunday saying she is officially running for president, before kicking off a campaign trip to Iowa. On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio announced that he, too, is joining the 2016 race for the White House. Political editor Lisa Desjardins reports.