Learned that the Worlds Largest economy, ours, remains resilient. So far from firing on all cylinders. Manufacturing is improving. In the face of a strong dollar and falling oil prices. The consumer is spending, the job market is strengthening and the stock market rebounded. After china devalued the currency earlier this week and all week long. Today, we got Additional Information on the state of the economy bringing investor attention back to good Old Fashioned fundamentals. Its a familiar story, but it paints a muddled picture. On the bright side, the u. S. Economy is growing. Two key numbers out today confirm it. The Producer Price index or ppi up 0. 2 of 1 and Industrial Production also higher. 0. 6 of 1 . Both up more than expected. But whether the u. S. Economy is moving fast enough to justify an Interest Rate hike by the Federal Reserve, well, that is another question. If theyre going to move its once or twice and only the move off of zero and to stay silent in the election peri
Woodruff the political campaigns know more about you than you think. We have the first of two reports from Hari Sreenivasan on efforts to track voters online. This could be the year that Digital Strategies decide what is shaping up to be a razorclose election, but who is watching us and how much do they know about us . Ifill Jeffrey Brown talks with author bill ivey about his prescription for remaking americas democracy. Well, i think what we need is to rediscover progressive values and put them forward. Im arguing for not bigger government but i think different government. Woodruff and Scott Schaefer of public televisions kqed profiles a photographer who uses googles street view images to create art. You have this distinct feeling of decay. The images almost challenge the viewer. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett found
They can build. Watch our coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday starting at noon eastern on cspan2s book tv. We are joined by representative marsz i cap tore democrat from ohio serving the 9th district, also a member of the Appropriations Committee and here it talk about amongst other things the state of renegotiation of nafta. Good morning to you. Pleasure to be on your program. Thank your listeners for listening. Talk about the state of nafta, renegotiations. Whats the purpose of the federal government at this time and what do you see happening with that . Well, the president during his campaign talked about the renegotiation of nafta and it is under way. For our region of the country, this is a very prime issue. I have a map here showing how many of our great lake states have lost jobs and how many jobs ohio since 1993 has lost over 34,900. 35,000 jobs to outsourcing and to low wage platforms and michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, indiana, i mean this whole region wa
To the topic of opioid addiction and before we get to it i want to ask about what you wrote on your blog. You said theyre writing about heroin is another way about writing about america, who weut are and what we have become. Can you explain that . I began to occur to me as i write in the middle of the project and i began to wonder why it was that this problem was affecting appalachia and why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and indianapolis in places that did well over the last 2030 years. What was the common denominator. I began to understand that the common denominator was our own isolation and that you are writing about much bigger topics then Drug Trafficking. My background is as a Crime Reporter and im wrote a book about Drug Trafficking from mexico and marketing from a supermarket and thats part of the story but i think beyond that it gets into who we have become. We become isolated, fragmented and weve done enormous amounts to destroy community in this country. The dream
Is shaping up to be a razorclose election, but who is watching us and how much do they know about us . Ifill Jeffrey Brown talks with author bill ivey about his prescription for remaking americas democracy. Well, i think what we need is to rediscover progressive values and put them forward. Im arguing for not bigger government but i think different government. Woodruff and Scott Schaefer of public televisions kqed profiles a photographer who uses googles street view images to create art. You have this distinct feeling of decay. The images almost challenge the viewer. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. Friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possi