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JIM LEHRER: Financial crises spread deeper at the state level today as most state governments began their new fiscal year. Some states were unable to pass budgets, while others voted on 11th-hour measures to stay afloat.Jeffrey Brown, with PBS correspondents around the country, has our lead story report ...
... produces millions of tons a year of toxic, water-polluting slurry," David Roberts, a senior writer for the environmental news blog Grist, recently told the PBS program NOW."Not a single commercial coal power plant in America captures or otherwise prevents CO2 emissions. 'Clean coal' is a PR gimmick," he ...
... interview with Susan Page of USA today as part of a collaboration with MacNeil-Lehrer Productions for a first ladies documentary to be broadcast on PBS next Monday. She was asked if she would be a different first lady from Laura Bush. TERESA HEINZ KERRY: Well, you know, I don ...
... Wis., in July 2012. President Obama called for raising the minimum wage in his State of the Union address this week. Photo by Flickr user WisconsinJobsNow. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a ...
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