HARI SREENIVASAN: One factor contributing to poverty, stagnating wages. As this graphic shows, wages adjusted for inflation have been virtually flat for 45 years, but consumer prices have been rising sharply during that same period. For more about th...
JUDY WOODRUFF: The giant retailer Target confirmed today that hackers stole encrypted pin numbers during a major data breach that began at Thanksgiving. Some 40 million accounts are potentially affected. Target said it believes the encryption will ke...
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, mining technology to solve the world's problems. NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman recently traveled to California and filed this report on someinnovative thinkers. It's part of his ongoing reporting Making Sense of fin...
GWEN IFILL: There's been a lot of talk about the politics behind the bipartisan budget agreement. We take a closer look now at the devil in those details. Senate Democrats were happy today to tout the budget deal headed to the president's desk. Budge...
JUDY WOODRUFF: General Motors has named a new CEO, and she's a woman, one who worked her way up in a company once known as an old boys club. The news comes one day after the federal government sold the last of the GM shares it purchased during the bi...
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, a conversation with one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics. The prizes were handed out yesterday in Stockholm. Yale University Professor Robert Shiller was one of three Americans honored for research...
JUDY WOODRUFF: As bad as circumstances are for people who can't find a job, there is a different, buttangible challenge for Americans who have work, but earn barely enough to get by. For them, as NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman reports, there is...
JEFFREY BROWN: Some perspective on these early reports and what it says about the economic health of the American consumer. We turn to Jerry Storch. He has his own advisory firm. He's a veteran of the retail industry, including as former chief execut...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: This has been a notable week for the stock markets, particularly for the Dow Jones industrial average, the benchmark index that's closely monitored and that's reaching new milestones. But there are questions about what's behind the ral...
