2009-11-27 Junior Achievement Marks 90 Years of Business Education
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, Junior Achievement marks its ninetieth anniversary of educating young people…
2009-11-20 Nearly Half of US Jobs Now Held by Women
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Women are on their way to holding more than half of all…
2009-11-13 On the Road to Health Reform, Congress Moves a Step Closer
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance…
2009-11-06 So Where Are the Jobs?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America’s economy has started to grow again. Now what about jobs? The…
2009-10-30 US Says Economy Grew 3.5 Percent in Third Quarter
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Early estimates show that the United States economy began to grow again…
2009-10-23 In the US, the New Look of Gas Exploration
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable…
2009-10-16 Nobel Recognizes Research Into Economic Governance
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economists usually study markets. Now, two Americans have won the Nobel Prize…
2009-10-09 Cities Now Home to More Than Half of All People
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Over half the world’s people now live in cities. The latest “Global…
2009-10-02 Rebalancing the World Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week’s meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20…
2009-09-25 New Proposals Intensify Debate on Net Neutrality
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. “Information wants to be free,” the saying goes. But the debate over…
2009-09-18 Looking Back: Wall Street, a Year Later
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One year ago, the United States financial system was in danger of…
2009-09-11 Illegal Marketing of Drugs: Pfizer’s Record Fine
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The world’s largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and…
2009-09-04 Commercial Real Estate Could Be Next Economic Threat
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The American housing collapse was a major cause of the recession. The…
2009-08-28 Obama Nominates Bernanke for a Second Term
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate…
2009-08-21 Recession Easing, but Many Americans Still Afraid to Spend
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stock prices took a roller-coaster ride this week — down one day,…