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Input From The Unhoused May Be Crucial Solution To Homelessness In San Francisco
The San Francisco Bay Area has a rising homeless population. On any given
night, an estimated 35,000 individuals are without a place to live.
Meanwhile, the cost of living continues to climb. Much effort has gone into
resolving the...
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Why so many student from for-profits schools are left in debt limbo
Students who attend for-profit college and training programs are more likely to borrow, borrow more and struggle to repay their loans. Not only that, but the overall graduation rate at for-profit institutions is just 27 percent....
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Goldman Sachs Part I
Paul Solman examines the inner workings of investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs and how it makes money. ( Part 1)
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Tayari Jones Answers Your Questions About ‘The Street’
Author Tayari Jones wrote the introduction to a new edition of Ann Petry's 1946 novel "The Street," our May pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This. Jones joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about the...
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Why Nigeria has more HIV-positive infants than anywhere else
Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is considered one of the most basic goals for curtailing the AIDS epidemic, and Nigeria is struggling mightily. In our series The End of AIDS, William Brangham and Jason Kane examine why this...
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How Retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens Would Amend the Constitution (April 21, 2014)
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks to Judy Woodruff about his new book, "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution." In his book, the 94-year-old liberal justice calls for major changes to the...
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High rent forces some in Silicon Valley to live in vehicles
Faced with some of the most expensive rental housing in the nation, some Bay Area residents are feeling priced out and are seeking low-cost alternatives. In Silicon Valley, a hub of computer and technology companies, some people are even...
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African-American female entrepreneurs turn to creative 'bootstrapping'
The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour's April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes...
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The bubble dynamics of bitcoin
Can bitcoin be a currency if you never know its value? Living outside the traditional banking network by design, its fluctuating value makes it too cumbersome for petty transactions. Yet despite the hurdles, bitcoin and its underlying...
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Massive Financial Crisis
As part of his continuing series of reports making sense of business and the economy, Paul Solman talks to MIT finance professor Andrew Lo about why he's asking Congress to keep investigating the financial crisis.
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Widespread Logging Threatens The Congo Basin’s Critical Rainforest
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a massive country, with a land area the size of Alaska and Texas combined. It’s also home to a large part of the Congo Basin rainforest, a habitat for countless species and a crucial absorber of...
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Economics Is Not a Morality Play': Paul Krugman on Managing Financial Crisis
Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Paul Krugman to discuss the provocative bestseller "The Great Deformation" by David Stockman and the government's role in mediating economic meltdowns. (see David Stockman June...
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Wall St. millionaire brings healthy food to those in need
Sam Polk was making millions on Wall Street when he had a life-changing revelation: he wanted to help those in need. His focus became so-called "food deserts," regions with limited access to healthy food. Polk founded Everytable to serve...
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For Great Sioux Nation, Black Hills Can't Be Bought for $1.3-Billion (August 24, 2011)
Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside the Black Hills as part of their reservation. However, there is a chance that the Great Sioux Nation's long struggle to...
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How U.S. Immigration Policy Affects Fate Of Migrants Braving The Deadly Darien Gap
The remote Darien Gap cuts across Central America, serving as a critical but perilous path for migrants desperate to make the journey to North America. Many people fleeing poverty, persecution and violence feel it’s their only option....
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A Career Truck Driver On Why His Is No Longer 'A Middle-Class Job'
Jobs in the trucking industry are increasingly threatened by technology and the rise of driverless trucks. But what explains the contradictory dynamic between fears of job elimination and a current shortage of truck drivers in the U.S.?...
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Indonesia on the Rise
Indonesia is an evolving, prospering democracy, but the country continues to struggle with corruption and economic inequality. Ray Suarez reports.
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Getting a B.A. Behind Bars
What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting...
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Claudia Rankine: Poetry and Racism
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine says that the small moments that carve
gaps of misunderstanding between Americans lead to big, national moments of
misunderstanding, like events in Ferguson and New York. Rankine explores
these...
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Desperate migrants share horror stories from Libya
The sea route from Libya to Italy is dangerous, even deadly, for African migrants and refugees who are desperate to cross. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from a Doctors Without Borders rescue ship that's attempting to save...
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Interview with Gerald and Betty Ford
In an interview at the 1984 Republican Convention, former President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford talk about the re-nomination of President Reagan and Vice President Bush, the conservative movement in the Republican Party, the rising...
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American renters hard-hit by pandemic juggle complicated assistance systems, eviction laws
American Renters Hard-Hit By Pandemic Juggle Complicated Assistance Systems, Eviction Laws
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Foster father who cares when terminally ill kids have no one
Mohamed Bzeek has become somewhat of a local hero in Los Angeles, taking on a life mission that few others would consider: as a foster parent who cares solely for terminally ill children. Special correspondent Gayle Tzemach Lemmon meets...
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In desperate quest to reach U.S., Central American migrants fear gangs, police
Around 3,000 Hondurans are currently traveling through Guatemala on their way to the U.S. President Trump has threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border if the caravan isn't stopped. But migrants say they fear not just deportation, but...