Economy Jan 17 Watch Bonuses Shrink as Wall Street Reacts to Crawling Economy As members of the Occupy movement sought answers on Capital Hill Tuesday, reports also circulated that bonuses on Wall Street will be lower this year. Judy Woodruff discusses what the declining dollars mean with financial writer William Cohan and compensation…
Education Jan 06 Watch New Study Gauges Teachers Impact on Students’ Lifetime Earnings Replacing a bad teacher with an average or a good one has measurable economic benefits such as boosting a student's lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a new study done in part by Harvard University economist…
Politics Jan 05 Watch Are Super PACs Living Up to Supreme Court’s Intentions? In Iowa, Super PACs pumped millions of dollars into last-minute negative television ads. What influence will they have in the rest of the GOP primary season and beyond? Judy Woodruff discusses the myriad of super PACs with the Sunlight Foundation's…
Economy Dec 09 Weather’s Dozen: 2011 Breaks U.S. Billion-Dollar Disaster Record Between fires, twisters, hurricanes, droughts and floods, 2011 has been Mother Nature's most continuously whopping year for the United States. Data released by NOAA now counts a record of 12 disasters passing the $1 billion mark in 2011 -- smashing… By Elizabeth Shell
Nov 08 Watch At Oil Spill Commission Hearing, ‘Rough Day’ for BP, Halliburton, Transocean The lead investigator of the national oil spill commission said there's no evidence of BP trading dollars for safety, but a long list of errors by the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig's operation were aired at a new… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch Fed Announces $600 Billion Economic Stimulus In an effort to boost the slow economic recovery, the Federal Reserve announced a bold move to buy $600 billion more in government bonds by the middle of next year. Jeffrey Brown talks to David Wessel of The Wall Street… Continue watching
Nov 01 Watch Candidates Spend a Record-Breaking $3 Billion on Ads Politicians campaigning to get their message across the airwaves spent almost $3 billion this year. Ray Suarez looks at this election's top campaign ads with Evan Tracey of the Campaign Media Analysis Group. Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Iran Says Payments to Afghan Government for Reconstruction Iran said Tuesday that it is helping Afghanistan financially, but said it is helping with reconstruction, not trying to buy influence over the Karzai administration. Jim Lehrer has more. Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch News Wrap: $40 Billion Pledged for Global Poverty Fight In other news Wednesday, more than 140 presidents, prime ministers and kings have been meeting at the United Nations to launch a $40 billion global strategy to help end poverty. Also, up to 5 million containers of infant formula will… Continue watching