Jul 01 Facing skilled worker shortage, U.S. companies try to train their own new labor pools By Levi Pulkkinen, The Hechinger Report With a growing consensus that some sectors of the economy face a shortage of qualified workers, employers are paying entry-level workers to learn on the job. Continue reading
Feb 13 Trump’s Fed pick faces sharp criticism in Senate hearing By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press One of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Federal Reserve came under sharp questioning from senators over her unorthodox economic views, including from two Republicans whose doubts about her nomination could imperil it. Continue reading
Jan 30 How novel coronavirus could affect the global economy By Gretchen Frazee International health experts say they are doing everything they can, in partnership with China, to contain the virus. Whether they are successful over the coming days and weeks could determine whether the virus ends up being relatively minor hit or… Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch 6:58 How these 2 economists are using randomized trials to solve global poverty By Paul Solman More than 700 million people across the globe live on extremely low wages. This year, a trio of economists won the Nobel Prize for their work on addressing global poverty, using randomized control trials to test and improve social policy. Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch 8:38 An economist’s analysis of data on parenting, from breastfeeding to co-sleeping By Paul Solman Raising a child is complicated and potentially confusing, with conflicting advice available everywhere a parent turns. Economist Emily Oster, a mother of two, dug into the data to help other parents make informed choices about managing their little ones --… Continue watching
Aug 06 China stabilizes currency but tensions with US remain high By Joe McDonald, Associated Press The move came a day after Beijing sent financial markets tumbling by allowing the currency to fall to an 11-year low. Continue reading
May 09 Watch 7:32 Dutch businesses work to test the concept of a circular economy By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe, Lorna Baldwin The Netherlands has become a global leader in implementing the tenets of a “circular economy,” a radical new approach to sustainable living that focuses on reducing consumption, minimizing waste and reusing nearly everything. As Jeffrey Brown reports, some Dutch companies… Continue watching
Jan 17 Trump cancels U.S. delegation trip to Davos economic forum By Associated Press White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that out of consideration for the 800,000 federal workers not getting paid, the president has nixed his delegation's trip to the World Economic Forum. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch 6:01 Comedy duo the Lucas Brothers on ‘survivor’s guilt’ and Bernie Sanders By Paul Solman The Lucas Brothers are an identical twin comedy duo raised in the inner city of Newark, New Jersey. Keith and Kenny both graduated from college and began law school before deciding to pursue comedy. Now in their 30s, the brothers… Continue watching
Oct 08 William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win economics Nobel for climate change, technological innovation models By Gretchen Frazee The two American economists have not worked together, but both have developed models to study long-term, sustainable economic growth. Continue reading