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In the News: What's Happening in Business & the Economy
In the News: What's Happening in Business & the Economy
Starting in mid-January 2021
Click to view the economic news for 2021
December
Massive Eviction Crisis Looms as Covid Protection Expires
December 8, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
Massive Eviction Crisis Looms as Covid Protection Expires
December 8, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
Businesses Could Force Employees to Get the Vaccine
December 10, 2020 Duration: 13 minutes
Businesses Could Force Employees to Get the Vaccine
December 10, 2020 Duration: 13 minutes
Will Digital Payments Replace Cash In the U.S.?
December 2, 2020 Duration: 14 minutes
Will Digital Payments Replace Cash In the U.S.?
December 2, 2020 Duration: 14 minutes
Why Teachers Are Paid So Little
December 10, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
Why Teachers Are Paid So Little
December 10, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
November
Can President Joe Biden Save the Economy?
November 10, 2020 Duration: 13 minutes
Can President Joe Biden Save the Economy?
November 10, 2020 Duration: 13 minutes
How Social Security Works
November 17, 2020 Duration: 19 minutes
How Social Security Works
November 17, 2020 Duration: 19 minutes
How Partial Covid Lockdowns Could Hurt the Economy
November 19, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
How Partial Covid Lockdowns Could Hurt the Economy
November 19, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
The Stock Market Soars & Elon Musk Gets Richer
November 24, 2020 Duration: 10 minutes
The Stock Market Soars & Elon Musk Gets Richer
November 24, 2020 Duration: 10 minutes
How Black Friday Will Look Different In 2020
November 25, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
How Black Friday Will Look Different In 2020
November 25, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
October
September was a bad month for stocks
Durations: 12 min
September was a bad month for stocks
Durations: 12 min
A second wave of layoffs are possible
Duration: 12 min
A second wave of layoffs are possible
Duration: 12 min
South Korea experiments with universal basic income
as a government response to high unemployment.
October 9, 2020 Duration: 7 minutes
South Korea experiments with universal basic income
as a government response to high unemployment.
October 9, 2020 Duration: 7 minutes
The reason why the stock market is ignoring the economy.
October 19, 2020 Duration: 6 minutes
The reason why the stock market is ignoring the economy.
October 19, 2020 Duration: 6 minutes
October 23, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
October 23, 2020 Duration: 11 minutes
Business Insider:
Business Insider:
Article posted on 10/10/2020
"Canada's 'beautifully surprising' basic income
study shows how business needs to reconsider
human nature"
The New York Times:
The New York Times:
Article posted on 10/28/2020
"Social Security Seemed Like a Future Problem.
The Virus Changed That."
September
The combined impact of income inequality & coronavirus.
September 6, 2020 Duration: 8 minutes
The combined impact of income inequality & coronavirus.
September 6, 2020 Duration: 8 minutes
Economists discuss the future of globalization post Covid.
September 14, 2020 Duration: 10 minutes
Economists discuss the future of globalization post Covid.
September 14, 2020 Duration: 10 minutes
How unemployment impacted millennials during Covid.
September 17, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
How unemployment impacted millennials during Covid.
September 17, 2020 Duration: 12 minutes
Older Americans - known as "workampers" - live full-time
in motor homes, while working season jobs.
September 24, 2020 Duration: 9 minutes
Older Americans - known as "workampers" - live full-time
in motor homes, while working season jobs.
September 24, 2020 Duration: 9 minutes
In the News: Special Reports
PBS / Frontline: Growing Up Poor In America
This special report follows three Ohio children and their families
as they struggle through the Covid-19 pandemic.
(Premiered on September 8, 2020)
Duration: 53 minutes
PBS / Frontline: Poverty, Politics and Profit
(Originally Aired on May 9, 2017)
Duration: 53 minutes
VICE on HBO: The Future of Work
(Originally Aired on November 20, 2019)
Duration: 55 minutes