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The topic of money is being tackled at a time when our country faces record budget deficits and our citizenry holds the highest levels of personal debt ever. The quest for money is often driven by pursuit of the American dream of upward mobility, yet the majority of Americans are anchored to the class we are born into, few move up, or down, for that matter.
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks:Class Mobility and the Wealth Gap
Originally aired May 13, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Julia McEvoy—Executive Producer, Chicago Matters
The dream of getting ahead in this country is based on the belief that it's possible to move up in social class. But that's not likely for America's poorest. Seventy percent of those born into the bottom quartile of wealth distribution remain there all their lives. This report examines the growing popularity of government-assisted savings programs for low-income families, which claim to offer both a handout and a hand up.
Music Button: Shark Quest, “Rosetta Barrage,” Gods and Devils (Merge, 2004)
Posted on 5.17.2005
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: Documentary—Banking the Unbanked
Originally aired May 12, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Lex Gillespie—Independent Producer
We examine how Chicago's Mexican American immigrant communities have developed their own ways of money management and saving and how banks are trying to get them to change their ways to become more financially literate—American style.
Posted on 5.16.2005
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: “Los Chicago Boys:” Chicago's Economic Reach in Chile
Originally aired May 11, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Catrin Einhorn—Producer and Correspondent, Chicago Public Radio News
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government brought a group of young Chileans to study economics at the University of Chicago. Upon returning to their homeland, history gave them a virtually unprecedented platform to implement what they had learned. They became known as “los Chicago Boys,” and they revolutionized Chile. Their work is considered a test case, and this documentary explores their legacy through interviews with those who taught them here in Chicago, the everyday Chileans who lived through their free market revolution, and the Chicago Boys themselves.
Posted on 5.12.2005
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: Cost of Adoption
Originally aired May 10, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Tony Sarabia—Correspondent, Chicago Public Radio News
Money is a tremendous factor in deciding who gets to adopt and who doesn't. It also influences the choices available in selecting a child. This report traces the effect money has on creating a family through adoption.
Posted on 5.11.2005
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: Documentary—Consuming Desire
Originally aired May 5, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Todd Melby—Independent Producer
Diane Richard—Independent Producer
We enter the world of passionate collectors and compulsive shoppers to find out why people spent money on objects they don't need.
Posted on 5.9.2005
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Money Talks: Best Education Money Could Buy: Battle for School Funding Reform
Originally aired May 3, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Jay Field—Correspondent, Chicago Public Radio News
We take a look at the reality behind the school funding reform movement from the perspective of several school superintendents who are in the process of fulfilling the federal mandate to hire a qualified teacher for every classroom.
Posted on 5.3.2005
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: Documentary—“Chicago Hustles”
Originally aired April 28, 2005, during our news broadcasts
Ann Hepperman—Independent Producer
Kara Oehler—Independent Producer
Jad Abumrad—Editor
A cigarette hustler takes us through Chicago's underground, where people use their own cars as cabs, drug dealers create mini-economies, and pharmaceuticals are sold door to door.
Posted on 5.2.2005
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