Jan 05 Watch 1:56 Eyes on Greek instability as euro plunges to nine-year low – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 21 Amazon signs five-year pricing deal with Simon & Schuster By Ashira Morris The contract, which both sides have labelled a success, allows the book publisher to set the price of electronic and print books sold on Amazon. Continue reading
Aug 18 Raising a kid today costs $245,340 By Associated Press Those costs — food, housing, childcare and education — rose 1.8 percent over the previous year, the Agriculture Department's new "Expenditures on Children and Families" report said. As in the past, families in the urban Northeast will spend more than… Continue reading
Jun 30 Interest rates on new student loans will increase Tuesday By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The change stems from a high-profile, bipartisan deal brokered last year by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama that ties the rates to the financial markets. Interest rates go from 3.86 to 4.66 percent on undergraduate Stafford loans. Graduate… Continue reading
Apr 02 Post-recession economy leaving many blacks behind, Urban League reports By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press While unemployment has been a major impediment to African-Americans' economic progress, underemployment is a bigger obstacle for them than it is for whites or Hispanics, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report. Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch Study exposes scope and business strategies of America’s underground sex trade By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 14 Banks can now accept cash from legal marijuana sellers By Joshua Barajas and Pete Yost, Associated Press The Obama administration on Friday gave banks a road map for doing business with legal marijuana sellers without getting into trouble, a major step by the federal government toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve… Continue reading
Dec 30 Democrats focus on minimum wage strategy for 2014 Flickr user WisconsinJobsNow Democrats are putting raising the minimum wage on top of the legislative agenda for 2014, the New York Times reports. Continue reading
Dec 27 What worries India’s top banker? In 2005, the world's leading economists gathered for an annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to discuss the global economy, and to honor soon-to-retire Alan Greenspan. Raghuram Rajan, then a professor at the University of Chicago presented a paper titled… Continue reading