Jul 03 Watch 3:04 What’s behind Venezuela’s economic crisis? By PBS News Hour Venezuelans are struggling with shortages of food, medicine and other necessities, with increasing finger-pointing at the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro. For more on the challenges facing the country, Nicholas Casey of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan from… Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch 3:04 What Brexit might do to the British economy By PBS News Hour Now that the UK has voted to leave the EU, one of the biggest remaining questions is how it will affect the British economy. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with London School of Economics professor Swati Dhingra, who has been studying… Continue watching
Jun 24 Brexit: 4 reasons it comes as a shock By Paul Solman First, of course, are the political implications. Second, these are millions upon millions of people who were voting against their pocketbooks. The third shock is more personal: my apparent over-reliance on the prediction markets, and on economists like Justin Wolfers… Continue reading
Jun 21 Can you guess how many Americans have absolutely no savings at all? By Kristen Doerer, Paul Solman Sixty-six million Americans have zero dollars saved for an emergency expense -- zero -- and 28 percent have only six months worth of savings, according to a new report by Bankrate. Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch 4:49 Why hiring is at five-year low and the economy is stalling By PBS News Hour According to a new report from the Labor Department, U.S. hiring fell to a five year low in May, with just 38,000 new jobs. Even if those numbers are off, the last quarter shows a similarly disturbing trend: 115,000 jobs… Continue watching
Jun 01 Watch 11:59 Why so many Americans in the middle class have no savings By PBS News Hour Could you come up with $2,000 in 30 days if you had to? As many as 40 percent of American families can’t, despite the improving economy. Among them is Neal Gabler, who is frequently broke despite his successful career as… Continue watching
May 26 Watch 8:28 U.S. innovators dogged by money-grubbing ‘patent trolls’ By PBS News Hour The U.S. economy is driven by innovation, but unwelcome “patent trolls” are gunking up the system. Patent reform bills sit idle in Congress as the “trolls” set up companies for the sole purpose, critics say, of shaking down inventors while… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 4:24 There’s less middle in the middle class as income inequality grows, Pew analysis finds By PBS News Hour The middle class has taken center stage in this election cycle, and it turns out there are increasingly fewer Americans who qualify. A new Pew analysis finds their ranks have shrunk since 2000 and that in at least 160 metro… Continue watching
May 07 Watch: Obama’s full speech to graduates at Howard University By Darlene Superville, Associated Press President Barack Obama has told Howard University's Class of 2016 that the country is "a better place today" than it was when he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. Continue reading
May 06 Obama stresses need for action on corporate tax evasion By Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press President Barack laid out what's needed to support the U.S. economy after a federal government report revealed weak job gains. Continue reading