Agriculture Report - Growing a Farm With Crowd-Sourced Money This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Kickstarter is a website where people give money to support creative projects. It started in two thousand nine, mostly to help artists an...
Fears for European Banks as Greek Depositors Withdraw Money Hundreds of Greek hotel workers are on strike in Athens. They are angry about plans that could cut their wages by up to 40 percent. Hotel worker Koukos Panagiotis says that Greeks' everyday...
LONDON - The European Central Bank has asked financial institutions across Europe to stand behind their struggling counterparts in Greece, Spain and other countries caught in the euro debt crisis. Banks have an incentive to support their rivals, but...
Agriculture Report - Growing a Farm With Crowd-Sourced Money This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Kickstarter is a website where people give money to support creative projects. It started in two thousand nine, mostly to help artists an...
Farming by GPS Saves Money, Environment Mixing tradition with technology On a weedy patch of land an hour and half from Washington, D.C., farmer Brad Eustace is tilling razor-straight lines with a GPS-guided tractor. With the computer in control, he...
Economics Report - How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money 经济报道 - 零花钱帮助孩子们学会理财 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Many children first learn the...
THIS IS AMERICA - 'Super PACs' and More: Politics, Money and Language STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we talk about politics, money...
The international aid organization Oxfam says thousands of Somali families could be cut off from much needed aid if a U.S. bank goes through with plans to discontinue its money-wiring services at the end of this month. Last week, a small bank in the...
In the slums of Kenya's capital, residents and aid groups are using new technology to send and receive money. Irene Okoth and her five children have been living on 50 cents a day in Nairobi's Korogocho settlement. That is what she earns recycling gar...
Karen: My company offers a 401(k) plan. Do you think I should have one? Jimmy: Yes, definitely. I had a 401(k) account when I worked for McQ Corp, and when I started working on my own I converted it to an IRA. Karen: I really dont understand any of t...