Washington, d. C. Every week eye on washington takes you straight to capitol hill for a discussion with nevadas delegation and other leaders about the federal matters that matter to you. Todays topic, a decade after the housing peak, owners are richer, but you, renters, are hurting. My special guest today to talk about it, rebekah king, a policy specialist with the National Housing conference and the nhc is a washington, d. C. Based organization that advocates for policy and housing sustainability and affordability. And, rebekah, thanks so much for being here again. Thanks for having me. If you are a nevada homeowner, things are sure better. Equity up, foreclosures down. That dwelling again feels likes a happy home instead of a barely affordable burden you fear losing daily. If you are a renter, well, for many of you, your Monthly Payment has you losing sleep every night. Today on eye on washington, nevadans today. Were going to define severely housing burdened, a situation too many ne
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sociologist and Stony Brook University is presser professor of gender studies, Michael Kimmel has written about men who feel disenfranchised and has now written a tome taking a deep im into this serious disconnect called angry white men, american masculinity at the end of an era. Tell me why you think this is worth taking note of. I asked that for the obvious reason, there are so many disenfranchised sectors of our society that there are those who would take a look at this and say who cares about white man . They still have the best of everything. But theres something about this that is worthy of us taking a deep dive into. Tell me why. I think first of all, they are very powerful. Some of the angry white men are very powerful. When you hear the day after president obama was reelected, when you hear them say things like we have lost our country am a when you hear republican senators say, for example, that we hav
The first foreclosure auction of the year is luring big money investors. But what happens when they open the front door for the first time after buying the property sight unseen . We have all that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for this wednesday, january 8th. Good evening and welcome. Temperatures may be warming if only by a little, and the job market too seems to be heating up. Just two days ahead of a labor departments december jobs report, the payroll firm adp said a far better than expected 238,000 private sector jobs were added in the month of december, the most in 13 months. Nearly 11 million americans, though, remain out of work. But the hopeful moves in the labor market were not lost on the Federal Reserve. And minutes from the Central Banks latest meetings show that part of the reason the fed decideded to start tapering its Stimulus Program is the improving employment picture. Steve liesman has more. The minutes of the Federal Reserves december meeting showing a
The Bellefontaine Board of Education praised a class that's helping hundreds of residents across our community during their Monday evening meeting, Feb. 12. B