Jul 04 Watch 10:30 Amid long economic expansion, why so many Americans are still struggling The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest economic expansion since the period following World War II. But even though the numbers are good, they don’t add up to prosperity for all Americans. William Brangham talks to Matthew… Continue watching
Dec 24 What history teaches us about the latest stock market plunge By Paul Solman How are today’s stock investors going to react if the market continues to plummet?… Continue reading
Dec 14 Business debt swells to $9 trillion, worrying investors By Stan Choe, Associated Press U.S. corporate debt has grown by nearly two-thirds since 2008, as companies continue to borrow at super-low interest rates. Continue reading
May 21 Analysis: Student loan debt and an astonishing number no one’s talking about By Paul Solman Do student loan defaults pose a systemic threat analogous to the subprime default wave that helped trigger the Crash of ‘08?… Continue reading
May 04 In this struggling Wisconsin town, families come to terms with needing help By Amy Goldstein In Janesville, Wisconsin, the nation’s oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. As many as 9,000 people lost their jobs, and families tumbled out of the… Continue reading
Sep 13 Income is up, poverty is down, but neither are back at pre-recession levels By Kristen Doerer With improving incomes, 3.5 million people climbed out of poverty in 2015, pushing down the official poverty rate to 13.5 percent. Continue reading
May 31 Watch 3:23 Obama to highlight economic progress in NewsHour town hall By PBS News Hour Elkhart, Indiana, was one of the cities hit worst by the financial crisis in 2009 and was the first city President Obama visited after taking office, though the city remains deeply divided along partisan lines. Obama will return to Elkhart… Continue watching
Sep 21 A quarter of all renters spend half of income on housing By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger About one quarter of all renters spend at least half of their paychecks just to keep roofs over their heads, and those numbers will only grow in the next 10 years, new research suggests. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 7:05 Why minority kids are being left behind by the economic recovery By PBS News Hour Child poverty is worse now than it was before the Great Recession, despite strides toward economic recovery. That's according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which found that rates were most severe for African-American and Native… Continue watching
May 22 Asking for help at 80 — America’s new faces of hunger By Ariel Min The warm sands and tony neighborhoods in Naples, Florida, give it the name “Paradise Coast.” But for seniors struggling to keep food on the table, it’s far from a paradise. Continue reading