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The U.S. economy grew modestly last quarter, but job lay-offs together with rising prices for gas, food and healthcare mean growing anxiety for many low and middle income Americans.How individuals and families are coping with mounting financial pressures
Michelle Singletary, syndicated columnist of "The Color of Money" for the Washington Post
Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and author of "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)"
Alan Levensen, chief economist at T. Rowe Price
Jane Bryant Quinn, Contributing Editor,Newsweek Magazine
Humans today are living longer than ever before. But worries about terrorism, food safety, and random violence, to name but a few, leave many in a perpetual state of fear. Journalist Daniel Gardner examines what the latest brain research reveals about why we fear the things we should not and how doing so can put us at greater risk
Daniel Gardner, columnist and senior writer for the "Ottawa Citizen."
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