A report shows employers may be building their pay around taxpayer support

How do you make it in Germany? One waitress shares her story.

In our series of safety net confessionals, the story of a man who says hard work and sacrifice were the safest nets for him.

Listener Kurt Deutscher, a 49-year-old web developer who grew up in a low-income family in Portland, Oregon, discusses his economic safety net, which came in the form of a unique graduation gift.

Government programs aren't the only safety nets that people fall back on. In the first of our "Safety Net Confessionals" we hear from Frank Paiano and one of the cousins he helped financially.