• December 11, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    December 11, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Dec 12, 2025 12:44 AM EDT

    ... health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act, Ukraine pushes for security guarantees against Russia as international pressure to accept the peace plan grows and economists warn of major risks created by private credit that could pose as large a threat as the housing market did before the Great Recession.

  • Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why

    Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why

    Nov 29, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... 29 hours a week because at 30 they would be eligible for basic benefits like health insurance or sick leave. And yeah, the cost of housing rents are just very quickly outpacing what their incomes are. So that's kind of the backdrop that defines these people's existence for ...

  • WATCH: Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani meet in the Oval Office

    WATCH: Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani meet in the Oval Office

    Nov 21, 2025 08:41 PM EDT

    ... player above. But their first-ever meeting Friday at the White House focused more on their shared goals rather than their combustible differences. They discussed housing affordability and the cost of groceries and utilities, as Mamdani successfully used frustration over inflation to get elected, just as the president did in ...

  • Brooks and Atkins Stohr on the end of the shutdown and affordability concerns

    Brooks and Atkins Stohr on the end of the shutdown and affordability concerns

    Nov 14, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    ... consumer sentiment is. And so you got to listen to the American people. They know what they're talking about. And I think it is affordable -- and it's affordability on two big issues. One is health care and the other is housing. I saw a Bloomberg graph today that ...

  • Elaine Luria helped investigate Jan. 6 and lost her House seat. Now she's making a comeback bid

    Elaine Luria helped investigate Jan. 6 and lost her House seat. Now she's making a comeback bid

    Nov 12, 2025 07:14 PM EDT

    ... City is.” Asked about the Senate's Democratic caucus members who voted this week to end the federal government shutdown without guaranteeing an extension of Affordable Care Act benefits, Luria played the question forward rather than acknowledging widespread anger at the lawmakers from across the Democratic spectrum. “The fact is ...

  • WATCH: Newsom says Trump is 'weakness masquerading as strength' at Texas rally

    WATCH: Newsom says Trump is 'weakness masquerading as strength' at Texas rally

    Nov 08, 2025 11:38 PM EDT

    ... quality of life of California residents but the state's image in the rest of the country. They include an ongoing homelessness crisis, high energy bills, a struggling home insurance market, notoriously high taxes and housing costs that have been driving residents out of state in search of affordable living.

  • Voters sent Washington a message to put 'everyday Americans first,' Jeffries says

    Voters sent Washington a message to put 'everyday Americans first,' Jeffries says

    Nov 05, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    ... high cost of living in an environment where costs haven't gone down, despite what Donald Trump promised on day one. Costs have gone up,housing costs up, electricity prices through the roof, childcare costs up, grocery costs up. And now, because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable ...

  • Trump may become the face of a deteriorating economy, a year after such worries helped him win

    Trump may become the face of a deteriorating economy, a year after such worries helped him win

    Nov 05, 2025 06:37 PM EDT

    ... to focus on affordability,” said Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate and Trump ally now running for Ohio governor in 2026. “Make the American dream affordable. Bring down costs, electric costs, grocery costs, health care costs and housing costs. And lay out how we’re going to do it.”

  • In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in Trump immigration crackdown

    In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in Trump immigration crackdown

    Oct 21, 2025 05:01 PM EDT

    ... demographics and generations of suspicionOver more than a century, South Shore has drawn waves of Irish, Jewish and then Black arrivals for its lakeside location, affordable bungalows and early 20th-century apartment buildings. Each wave viewed the next with suspicion, in many ways mirroring how Black South Shore residents saw ...

  • Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

    Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

    Oct 10, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    Miles O'Brien: Besides many homes like Carol's, heat pumps attached to the geothermal network are in use at a school administration building, a fire station, and a public housing development. It's an $18.6 million project that comes amid significant changes in regulations. Massachusetts and the other ...