Oct 05 A Day with the Occupiers of Wall Street By Elizabeth Shell We spent yesterday at the Occupy Wall St. site in lower Manhattan, a stone's throw from ground zero. For those of us old enough to remember such gatherings in the so-called Sixties ('64-'74), the similarities were striking: spontaneity, solidarity, earnestness,… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch In a Weak Economy, Why Is CEO Pay on the Rise? Median executive compensation has more than quadrupled over the last four decades, even through the latest financial crisis. Margaret Warner explores how CEOs can still command such salaries and benefits in light of the recession with Michael Faulkender of the… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Author Daniel Yergin on Energy Costs, SUVs and a ‘Nuclear Patchwork’ Author Daniel Yergin on Energy Costs, SUVs and a 'Nuclear Patchwork'… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch India’s Massive School Lunch Program Aims to Curb Widespread Malnutrition The economy in India is growing rapidly, but not fast enough to take care of its millions of poor and hungry children. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a solution that has resulted in the world's largest school… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Wall Street Protests Spread, Channeling Anger at Corporate, Political Forces Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement are maintaining a growing campaign against corporate and political forces that they say are fueling economic inequality in America. Judy Woodruff examines who's involved in the protests and what they're seeking with WNYC… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch The Doubleheader: Killing al-Awlaki, Occupy Wall Street and Red Sox Failure Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch How Severe Are Problems With Social Security? Social Security checks go out on Wednesday to more than 52 million Americans, but the viability of the program has recently taken center stage in the GOP presidential nomination race. Ray Suarez discusses the economics of Social Security with David… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch Inequality Hurts: The Unhealthy Side Effects of Economic Disparity As part of our series on economic inequality, Paul Solman investigates the health effects that inequality can have on individuals and society. To determine the hidden costs, he speaks with epidemiologists, former six-figure income earners who are chronically unemployed and… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch Cities Hit Hard by Slump, Adding to Cloudy Economic Picture As the nation's economic woes mount, evidence of continuing trouble can be found in city revenues, the housing market and high unemployment rates. Gwen Ifill discusses the big picture with Patchwork Nation Director Dante Chinni, Howard Wial of the Brookings… Continue watching
Sep 27 Tracking Economic Woes, From Cities to Housing to Family Income We take a broad look at the nation's economic woes on Tuesday's NewsHour -- troubles ranging from unemployment to housing to household incomes. Patchwork Nation has been examining much of this data in recent months. Project director Dante Chinni will… Continue reading