When Savings Are Slim
February 2, 2014A new study shows nearly half of Texans don’t have enough cash available to stay above the poverty line for three months after a financial emergency. We’ll find out why the numbers have jumped.
A new study shows nearly half of Texans don’t have enough cash available to stay above the poverty line for three months after a financial emergency. We’ll find out why the numbers have jumped.
We’ll talk this hour about the history of drug use with Northwestern Professor of Pharmacology Richard Miller, author of Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs.
We’ll talk to Paul Oyer this hour about his new book, Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating.
As part of KERA’s American Graduate initiative, we’ll talk this hour about teaching students science, technology, engineering and math with a panel of experts in town today for Microsoft YouthSpark Connections.
We’ll talk this hour about the slippery slope that secrets create with Jane Isay, author of Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives.
We’ll talk this hour to best-selling author Amy Tan about her new novel, The Valley of Amazement.
As part of KERA’s Breakthroughs initiative, we’ll talk this hour about how we may be predisposed to certain belief systems and methods of decision-making with neuroscientist D.F. Swaab, author of We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer’s.
Earning a law degree isn’t the ticket to wealth that it once was. In fact, many newly minted lawyers have trouble even finding work.
We’ll talk this hour about how to make an impression with Susan RoAne, author of How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections – In Person and Online.
David R. Dow, a leading anti-death penalty crusader who founded the Texas Innocence Network, explains how he arrived at his beliefs in a new memoir.