JUDY WOODRUFF: Our next segment examines new research that's drawing attention for its findings about economic opportunity in America. Jeffrey Brown picks it up from here. JEFFREY BROWN: Is it still possible to climb to the top in America? In a paper
JUDY WOODRUFF: The major broadcast television networks have something to celebrate. Each has at least one new prime-time entertainment series that's drawn at least 10 million viewers. This comes as cable networks like AMC are drawing comparable or be
HARI SREENIVASAN: Next: a pair of dispatches from Detroit at an important moment, starting with a key trial over the city's bankruptcy filing. Detroit's leaders say the city is $18 billion in debt, forcing a move to Chapter 9. But they also must pers
HARI SREENIVASAN: A startling report in todays Washington Post, the newspaper says more than a thousand of the nations non-profits have each acknowledged losses of a quarter million dollars or more, because of theft, investment fraud, embezzlement or
JUDY WOODRUFF: This month's jobs report was the first one since the government shutdown that captured some of its wider impact. It also came one day after a government report found stronger-than-expected growthin the U.S. economy just before the shut
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
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
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
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: 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: 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
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
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
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: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Welcome, gentlemen. It's Friday. So let's start with the spectacle New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Chr
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JUDY WOODRUFF:The testimony is over, closing arguments are done, and now it's the jury's turn. Six women in Sanford, Fla., began deliberating this afternoon in the case of a neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering an unarmed teenager on Feb
JEFFREY BROWN:And next: tech giant Apple on the hot seat on Capitol Hill for tax practices that saved the company billions. Margaret Warner has that story. MARGARET WARNER:Chairman Carl Levin laid out the findings of his Senate panel's investigative
JUDY WOODRUFF:Government officials said today the trust fund fueling the nation's Medicare program is in somewhat stronger shape than it was last year. They projected it will stay solvent until 2026, two years later than last year's projections. At t
GWEN IFILL:Finally tonight: the collection of information online and its economic consequences. The recent revelations about surveillance have raised numerous questions about the use of data by the government and service providers. We close with a lo
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