What did you think when you saw the millions of dollars in kickback money . It was amazing. I mean, this is a huge amount of money. If you werent following the money, how do you know that the lowincome housing tax credit is working . Narrator tonight, frontline and npr take a hard look at poverty, politics and profit. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. A
What did you think when you saw the millions of dollars in kickback money . It was amazing. I mean, this is a huge amount of money. If you werent following the money, how do you know that the lowincome housing tax credit is working . Narrator tonight, frontline and npr take a hard look at poverty, politics and profit. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. A
We look at whether uber took advantage of its riders. Youre watching a special edition of reality check. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im sam broke. We use Data Research and expert analysis to separate the truth from the bunk. Lets begin this evening with a pocketbook issue that is impact impactingimpact ing virtually all americans, which is gas prices. Gas prices have been plummeting for months, but the oil industry is warning california drivers not to get too comfortable. They say prices are going to soar in 2015 because of a new law. California drivers are accustomed to high prices at the gas pump, but the oil lobby is sounding the alarm claiming they could skyrocket in 2015. Is this true . This is very much an extreme and very unlikely scenario of the gas prices would go up anywhere near that much. Reporter he is an Energy Policy expert at Stanford University who believes gas prices will go up modestly in 2015 thanks to californias landmark cap and trade program. You see
A new school in San Francisco is promising just that. We first told you about minerva a year ago. The founding class of freshman is now enrolled. Reporter he is a 17yearold College Student from san diego who is debating his college classmates online. When he applied to college, he got into ucla, uc berkley, and nyu, but he chose minerva. I wanted to cocreate my experience. Its something im not going to find anywhere else. Reporter it is unique in many ways. Theres no campus. Most of the students in the first class come from overseas. The courses they took are entirely online. Most people would think this is really difficult to do, to be accustomed to having classes online. Im really engaged. Reporter in their second year, theyll move to a different city every semester. After that, the plan is to go to hong kong and mumbai. To understand the worlds biggest problems, we need to live in different cities and see the different problems people have and how they try to solve them. What we hav