Sep 28 Watch Recession Ushers in Widest Income Inequality Gap on Record The U.S. now has the greatest disparity between the rich and the poor within Western industrialized countries, new Census data show. Timothy Noah of Slate magazine and Howard University professor Roderick Harrison looks at the growing income gap in America. Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch Former Bush Adviser Hubbard Weighs in on Tax Cut Debate In the first of several conversations on whether Bush-era should be extended, Gwen Ifill speaks with Columbia University's business school Dean Glenn Hubbard, who helped craft the cuts when he served as an economic adviser to President George W. Bush. Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch Record Poverty Level: ‘Long Slog Ahead’ for Poor Americans? The Census Bureau released a report showing that one in seven Americans lived in poverty last year, and more than 50 million are not insured. Ray Suarez discusses the record poverty numbers and the recession's effects on the poor with… Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro Margaret Warner speaks with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine and Latin America analyst Julia Sweig, who met with Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro in Havana and discussed the shortcomings of the island nation's economic system. Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch Megacities Reflect Growing Urbanization, But Poverty Still Rampant The World Bank says Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the fastest growing city in the world with a population of 15 million. But as more of the world's impoverished flee to megacities for economic opportunities, the perils of urbanization… Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch Fighting Poverty in Kenya by Selling Water Pumps to Poor Farmers Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California man sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya through the use of foot-pumps. Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch Bridging the Technical Divide in Johannesburg As the World Cup enters the semi-finals in South Africa, the country's poorer sections are left in the shadows of the soccer stadiums. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how one man has been attempting to bridge the digital divide… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch Microfinancing Gives Housing Hope to Residents of Kenya’s Slums Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya on new efforts to help poor residents of Nairobi's crowded, unsanitary slums find adequate housing through entrepreneurship and microfinancing. Continue watching
Oct 08 Will the New G-20 Eclipse the United Nations? Question: Your exuberance the other day in discussing the addition of several countries to the G-8 — now G-20 — led me to speculate whether the new G-20 could, in a real sense, eclipse the United Nations. Can the… Continue reading
Jul 24 Should the Government Set Up a National Lottery? Question: No one wants to pay higher taxes. But at the same time, many people don’t think twice about spending a few dollars a week on a lottery ticket. Why doesn’t the government set up a National Lottery to supplement… Continue reading