Tag Archives: KQED

Holiday hardship

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: December 18, 2009

The holiday season is off to a rocky start, as many families have less money for gifts and travel. But things are starting to look up in some parts of the country, and even hard-hit areas are taking a glass-half-full approach to the new year.
At WEKU in Kentucky, Charles Compton reports that maybe we’ve had [...]

Posted in Econstory, KQED, NPR: Aggregated Local News Feed, NPR: Local/National Collaboration, PRX: Public Radio Archive | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cash-strapped California

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: July 13, 2009

With an economy larger than most countries in the world, how can the state of California be in so much financial trouble? NPR is taking an in-depth look at how the Golden State went broke, and what’s being done to dig out with a series called California in Crisis.
San Francisco’s KQED has a collection of [...]

Posted in Econstory, KQED, NPR: Local/National Collaboration, NewsHour: Economic Patchwork Map | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment