and politicians are beginning to hari sreenivasan reports from pay attention. hari sreenivasan reports from the battleground state of nevada. >> go ahead and fill it out. sreenivasan: newly minted citizen genevieve is registering to vote for the first time. >> this is my first time. it's exciting for me. >> sreenivasan: she lives in clark county nevada where this year ball localities and election materials will be available in her native filipino language. filipinos are the second largest minority group in the county behind latinos. their numbers have passed a threshold required by the voting rights act to have ballots printed in a language other than english. voter registration drives are happening at places like this ethnic grocery store in las vegas frequently because asians and pacific islanders make up 9.9%. population in the county. amy organized this registration event. >> i think sometimes they don't understand the electoral process. they don't want to vote. >> sreenivasan: one challenge is the language barrier. it's far easier for the shl campaigns to

hari explains. >> sreenivasan: that's the subject of this week's political checklist. find that on the rundown. and the new nation of south sudan celebrates its one-year birthday today. read about the challenges for the fledgling country on our world page. all that and more is on our website: newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at one man's mission to live forever. i'm gwen ifill >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is

but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: eurozone finance ministers agreed today on the terms of a $123 billion bailout package to help spain's ailing banks. the debt-stricken country will receive its first payment of more than $36 billion by the end of this month. the e.u. also gave spain an extra year to cut its deficit. and speaking in brussels, the spanish finance minister welcomed the aid but acknowledged there's still much work to be done. >> ( translated ): during the next 18 months, we have to clean up the spanish financial system. that also relates to a macroeconomic aspect: the deleveraging of the spanish economy. that's the reduction of spanish debt and adjusting the prices of assets to reality of the market. we can do this thanks to the financial assistance. >> sreenivasan: the bailout boosted the spanish stock market. other european markets were cautiously optimistic, closing with slight gains. in early trading on wall street, stocks moved higher, but those gains were erased by falling oil prices. the dow jones industrial averag

and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari?>> sreenivasan: on our health page, personal reactions from three ordinary americans on how the supreme court's health reform ruling might affect their lives. plus we look at fresh public opinion polling since the decision. that's in the morning line. also on our web site, we asked newshour viewers to outline their level of enthusiasm about the upcoming election, and the results might surprise you. that's on our politics page. and why didn't the 2009 stimulus plan lead to greater recovery? paul solmon answers one reader's questions on our making sense page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at what happened to the signers of the declaration of independence after that historic moment. i'm judy woodruff. >> and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you on-line, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> by nordic

and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: from our business desk, economics correspondent paul solman answers the question: compared to europe, does the u.s. really have its act together? and on our world page, libya votes saturday in its first free elections in more than 40 years and expectations are running high. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm ray suarez. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with david brooks and e.j. dionne among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you

. >> woodruff: from our series on "coping with climate change," hari sreenivasan has the story of a native american tribe known as the "salmon people," whose way of life is under siege. >> threatened by the loss of traditional resources, the swinomish are partnering with scientists to determine what changes future generations face. >> ifill: and we preview a documentary about a day in the life of a large city public hospital struggling to care for its uninsured patients. >> it's almost like a video game where you have to place patients, move patients, keep the flow going and if you don't, it stacks up, it just keeps spinning more and more out of control. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: syrian rebels dealt a stunning blow to the assad government today-- a bombing that wiped out

and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: now that the supreme court has upheld the health care law, what comes next? health correspondent betty ann bowser blogs about what states and local governments might do. and on our making sense page, business and economics correspondent paul solman answers the question: what's a better value, u.s. savings bonds, gold, or silver? all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> woodruff: and again, to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are eight more. h >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll have two newsmaker interviews with the new president-elect of mexico and i.m.f. chief christine lagarde. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'lyosel liu e anneonaiag, n here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has bn provided by:as >> b

. >> ifill: hari sreenivasan interviews npr's howard berkes about the rise in black lung disease, that's sickening thousands of coal miners. >> woodruff: and we close with a conversation with journalist david maraniss. his new book traces president obama's family history and explores how his early years shaped his future. >> that's what fascinated me in the beginning, sort of the unlikeliness of this character coming from so many different places and weaving it together in someone who became president. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: tax politics returned to center stage in washington today, as president obama called for extending middle class tax cuts and mitt mney said the white house plan doesn't go nearly far enough. ( applause ) the white house east room was the backdrop for a

and it was under the administration of a remarkable social worker from iowa named hary hopkins. he was the forerunner of the wpa and the prototype for it. this is a page from the cw a and it showed kids getting hot lunches. that was important. he put 2 million americans to work. and that included about 50 thousand school teachers sent out to rural areas. this is a cw a project. that's stern grove behind it. they are using wheel barrels. for this reason, many projects were well built. there are no cw a plot. this was one in berkeley placed there and the tennis court at coat niecis park. i was showing a montessory class there. this is an amphitheatre. it's a wonderful amphitheatre. there was from the sidewalks and they just reused it to create other things. down in menlow park. they built into a caretakers house. the wpa is must more famous. it came after the cw a. it did everything. they put eight and a half million people to work. they built roads. they sewed clothes. they built roads is in san francisco. this one, i have seen them on sidewalks in san francisco. this is on a ret

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>>hary truman says the buck stops with you. my understanding is mr. romney attested multiple times he was the chairman ceo, and president of bain capital. i think most americans figure if you are the chairman, ceo, and president of a company that you are responsible for what the company does. >> romney says the attacks are out of bounds. >> he should say he is sorry for the attacks coming from his team. is very disappointing. >> the obama team accuses bain of shifting jobs overseas. most of that happen after romney says he left the company in 1999. filings list him as ceo and president of the company until 2002. >> ultimately mitt romney will have to answer those questions because if he aspires to be a president, one of the things you learn is you are ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations. again that is probably a question he will have to answer. i think that is a legitimate part of the campaign. >> and you think he should answer that? >> absolutely. >> mitt romney maintains the only maintained ownership sales -- shares. >> they to