Poverty In America: Defining The New Poor : NPR - 0 views
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poverty has been on the rise since 2000
Family Matters: The Money Squeeze : NPR - 0 views
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Nearly 10 million adult children are caring for aging parents today,
As More Move To Cities, A New Take On Urban Design : NPR - 0 views
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By the year 2050, some 7 billion people will be living in cities. As many people who live on the planet today will be city dwellers just 38 years from now. Two years ago, for the first time in human history, over 50 percent of the population of the world now lives in cities, and that trend is accelerating. Every month, 1 million people in the world move to a city. If we don't get cities right, we're kind of - don't have a very bright future as humankind.
Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books? : NPR - 0 views
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Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an old book, inscribed by the hands and the minds of readers who are gone.