Understanding Today’s Puzzling U.S. Economy
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
William Temple of the Golden Isles Tea Party in Georgia, dressed as Button Gwinnett, the second signer on the United States Declaration of Independence, cheers as Ben Carson speaks Feb. 26 during the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.
The clock is ticking as Congress races to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The House of Representatives considers a short-term funding bill to buy time before tonight’s midnight deadline. President Barack Obama vetoes the Keystone XL Pipeline bill, the first of many vetoes expected in his last two years in office. Jeb Bush hopes to change some minds at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Hillary Clinton lays out possible 2016 campaign themes in a speech to 5,000 women in Silicon Valley. And in an historic vote, the Federal Communications Commission classifies broadband internet service as a public utility. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week’s top national news stories.
Most experts are putting Hillary Clinton as the democratic front runner for the 2016 presidential elections.
But some say she would actually benefit from some competition in the primary, and that some of her positions will likely be shaped by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a favorite among more progressive Democrats who has said she won’t run but has met with Clinton about her campaign.
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.
Fifty years after the Tuskegee study, Diane talks to Harvard's Evelynn Hammonds about the intersection of race and medicine in the United States, and the lessons from history that can help us understand health inequities today.
Pills, the right to travel and fetal personhood laws -- Diane talks to Temple University Law School's Rachel Rebouché about what's next in the fight over abortion in the U.S.
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