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Unemployment and Bridging the 'Skills Gap'
When formerly middle class workers are on the streets with their children, what's the future of the "American Dream?" The human cost of long-term unemployment...
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWhen formerly middle class workers are on the streets with their children, what's the future of the "American Dream?" We talk about the human cost of long-term unemployment for millions of Americans — the causes and some potential solutions. Also, Vice President Biden tells the NAACP Mitt Romney is a "threat," and an assessment of America's longest conflict — the war in Afganistan.
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3 storiesBiden Tells NAACP Mitt Romney Is a 'Threat'
Yesterday, Mitt Romney was greeted politely by the NAACP, but booed when he called for repeal of "Obamacare." Today, Vice President Joe Biden addressed the same audience with a different message and very different results.
Read the story1 minLong Term Unemployment and the 'American Dream'
The relentless 8.2 percent unemployment rate dominates coverage of the presidential campaign, but it's much more than a political story. It's a measure of human misery. Some 5.4 million Americans have been out of work for more than six months, and that's being called "a national emergency playing out in slow motion."
Read the story1 min'Little America' in Afghanistan
America's longest war is winding down as the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is already underway. How have America's goals changed? Has President Obama's military "surge" been successful? What about the civilian surge? Those and other questions are addressed in Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan.
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