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Six words across America

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: April 23, 2010

Jobs, health care, finances, credit, mortgages, recession. These are just six of the many topics EconomyStory has covered on the economic crisis. As our project is coming to an end soon, we’ve been asking for your six-word memoirs about how to cope in the current climate.
This week, Smith Magazine, the originators of the six-word [...]

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Six words on health care

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: March 29, 2010

Everyone’s got a story about health care, whether it’s a late night rush to urgent care with a sick kid or a nightmarish series of calls to the insurance company to settle a claim. Last week, we asked for your Six Word Economy Memoir and received some great responses. With the recent passage of the [...]

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Footing the bill for unemployment

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: January 22, 2010

As jobless rates continue to rise, states are struggling to keep up with unemployment insurance claims. ProPublica reported that 25 states have already run out of funds or borrowed to keep up with the demand for unemployment insurance. Are there any creative solutions? Which states are hurting the most?
Minnesota’s Dislocated Worker Program has given some [...]

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We’ve got the beat

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: November 5, 2009

From stock market charts to music parodies, the economy definitely has some rhythm, and maybe that’s why a few new projects that are taking music as an inspiration, both literally and figuratively, as public media covers the economy.
A big “ewww!” was my first reaction to this week’s PRX EconomyBeat podcast, which takes us [...]

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B-B-Bernanke and the Fed

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: August 28, 2009

Minnesota Public Radio’s In The Loop host Jeff Horwich has a few things to say about Ben Bernanke’s renomination as chair of the Federal Reserve:

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