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Jul 04

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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…

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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?…

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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.

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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?…

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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…

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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.

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May 31

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Obama to highlight economic progress in NewsHour town hall

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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…

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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.

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Jul 21

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Why minority kids are being left behind by the economic recovery

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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…

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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.

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