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Will S. Korea's robot revolution hurt American jobs?
South Korea is among the countries working to increase automation in the manufacturing sector, with some large companies seeing robots as a cost-effective way to replace expensive human labor. But how will the expansion of this...
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Finding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry
Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive woman than we...
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Ending AIDS in NY means finding the most vulnerable
Nearly one in 10 Americans living with HIV live in New York, where an ambitious plan aims to cut new infections and HIV-related deaths. But the state has serious challenges, including keeping people on their meds, and preventing the...
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How human traffickers trap women into domestic servitude
More than three million women are forced into servitude as domestic workers every year, often lured to other countries in the Persian Gulf or Middle East under false pretenses. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ways...
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Goldman Sachs Part I
Paul Solman examines the inner workings of investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs and how it makes money. ( Part 1)
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Arid Middle East Faces Political Battles Over Water Shortfalls
The Middle East is facing a water crisis, and the divisions between Israel and Palestinians have only exacerbated the problem. But whereas Israel is a pioneer in desalination and produces much of its own water, in Gaza, Palestinians...
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Are you hanging off a financial cliff? Here's how to cope
Elizabeth White was once comfortably middle class, but recently she has been severely underemployed. Now as she approaches the traditional age for retirement, she is struggling to make ends meet, and her story is not uncommon. Economics...
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Rosa Parks Trained for Life Full of Activism
Gwen Ifill talks with biographer Jeanne Theoharis, whose book "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955.
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A new generation of war crimes investigators turn high-tech methods
Humanitarian crises like those in Syria's Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social...
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Many Ugandan Children Forced Into Hard Labor, Sex Trafficking As Covid Closes Schools
The effects of the pandemic on children vary dramatically depending on the
country. With schools still shuttered in Uganda and other developing
nations, many children have no choice but to work to survive. In Africa,
more than one-fifth...
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High-tech India Contrasts
India has benefited from supplying other countries with outsourcing services from computer help to legal document analysis, while in other parts of the country poor farmers are struggling to make a living. NewsHour special correspondent...
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College turns its football field into a farm and sees students transform
At Paul Quinn College, where once there was a football field, now there's an organic farm. It's not just a symbol of renewal for this once-struggling historically black college in Dallas; it's where students work to pay tuition. As part...
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Individual coaching demystifies college for first-generation applicants
Final deadlines for college applications are looming this week, and students who are first in their families to attend college are far less likely to have help navigating the application system. The College Advising Corps aims to change...
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Bernd Heinrich On His 'Unusual' Life As A Runner And Biologist In Maine
A new book out Tuesday, "Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime,"
explores a life of scientific research and discovery in nature, and some
extraordinary feats of the human body. And the author himself, Bernd
Heinrich, is the subject...
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A mentoring program that aims to keep Latino males in school
On college campuses, Latino males are perhaps the most underrepresented group. These men are often expected to provide for their families, which can mean a choice between getting an education and getting a job. Hari Sreenivasan reports...
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Why a Kenyan island might teach the world how to beat AIDS
A massive HIV test-and-treat study is underway in Kenya and Uganda. Migratory men in the fishing industry there have been hit especially hard, and researchers are trying creative ways to encourage them to get tested. William Brangham...
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Group gives cash aid to rural Kenyans, then studies its effects
Since it was founded in 2011, U.S.-based nonprofit GiveDirectly has given cash unconditionally to villagers in eastern Africa, particularly Kenya and Uganda. The nonprofit's most recent project involves providing a basic income...
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In the crossfire of Ukraine-Russia conflict, an industrial plant fights to survive
A conflict between Ukraine and Russia since 2014 has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced 2 million and put businesses on the border, like the Metinvest plant in Eastern Ukraine, in the crossfire. Metinvest is the largest plant in...
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Conversation with Dorothy Height
Gwen Ifill talks with Dorothy Height, a legend of the civil rights movement and former head of the National Council of Negro Women, about her memoir, "Open Wide the Freedom Gates."
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Whistleblowers win with False Claims Act
Last year alone, the federal government and its whistleblowers -- people
incentivized by the False Claims Act to expose fraud in companies that work
with the government -- recovered nearly $6 billion in lawsuits that exposed...
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High rent forces some in Silicon Valley to live in vehicles
Faced with some of the most expensive rental housing in the nation, some Bay Area residents are feeling priced out and are seeking low-cost alternatives. In Silicon Valley, a hub of computer and technology companies, some people are even...
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Ethiopia's Abundant Farm Investments
Farms backed by foreign investments are growing with abundance in a country known for famine
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How this artist fantasyland became a New Mexico moneymaker
Can an immersive, mystery funhouse help revive a state like New Mexico? Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe hippie artist collective turned business that convinced the "Game of Thrones" author to buy and...
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Filling In This Perception Gap Can Help Low-Income Students Succeed
For many students at LaGuardia Community College in New York, making it from the first day of school to graduation is a struggle. And they're not alone. Part of this national problem? We don't have a good idea of who's going to college,...