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Who owns the happy birthday song?
Mitchell Hartman Jun 14, 2013
Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson is challenging the copyright to the happy birthday song after being asked to pay $1,500 to Warner Music to use the tune in her film.
Music's reliance on summer concert season
Shannon Mullen May 31, 2013
The summer concert tour season is under way. How important financially are these tours for bands?
Sequester cuts weigh on Head Start programs
Nancy Marshall-Genzer May 29, 2013
Cuts to government-funded child development programs leave parents scrambling to find child care.
Friday furloughs mean less services
Jeff Tyler May 24, 2013
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?
The beat of the sequester furloughs marches on
Sally Herships May 24, 2013
As a result of sequester, the IRS, HUD, the EPA and Office of Management and Budget become part of the biggest wave of government office closures since 1995.
Playlist: A soundtrack for digging yourself out of debt
Margaret Aery May 17, 2013
From "The Payback" by James Brown to The Smiths' "I Don't Owe You Anything" to "Bills, Bills, Bills" by Destiny's Child, we've compiled a playlist of tunes all about borrowing and lending.
New ways to cut wasteful spending at the Pentagon
Nancy Marshall-Genzer May 13, 2013
The Air Force turns to rank and file to ferret out waste, following the example of the private sector.
The sequester cuts and a steelworker's job prospects
Kai Ryssdal May 2, 2013
It's been nearly a year since Richard Crowe was laid off from his job as a steelworker. And because of the sequester, his unemployment check was cut 10 percent. But a new job might be in his future.
No sequester reprieve for biomedical research
Kai Ryssdal Apr 30, 2013
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute of Health, on how sequester cuts have caused anxiety for young researchers.
U.S. pays down debt for first time in six years
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Apr 30, 2013
The Treasury Department is expected to start paying down U.S. government debt this quarter for the first time in six years.
