this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting for the pbs newshour. r woodruff: now, another of our brief but spectacuisodes where we ask people about their passions. jay allison is an independent journalist who produces the "moth radio hour" and is the founder of the public media website, transom.org. tonight, we get hithoughts on how he goes about finding stories for radio and the importance of paying attention. >> radio isn't a performance medium in the usual sense or even like tv where several people might be watching.ne lly, it's maybe one person with headphones in or a person in the kitchen and if you can ma sey're doing and stay stopped until you finish try, that is our definition of success. when i began in radio, i only talked to pele who'd never. been interviewed before. the thing about talking to strangers is you-- you probably never gonna see each other again. if you go and talk to people with a camera like you're doing or with a microphone and focusfu y, it's that the things come out of lock boxes and people start revealing things because

economics correspondent paul solman has our report. it's part of our weekly seriesg "maknse" and it's also the latest in our series "chasing the dream" on poverty and opportunity in america. >> reporter: the sign of the times in wisconsin: "help wanted"-- on virtually every restaurant window, store front and city bus. even public tv has openings. an aging population and few immigrants has this state, with a record low jobless rate of 2.9%, projecting 45,000 more job openings by 2024 than workers to fill them. >> the reality is anywhere inut astern wisconsin right now, if you need employees, truggling to find them. >> reporter: erik anderson, is c.e.o. of basin precision w machininch makes parts for, among others, harley davidson. in spite of high tech machinery that requires fewer operators, anderson wants to expand, and is sperate to hire. you still need how many people? >> 20. d >> reporter: you still n right now? >> i've got 20 jobs right now. >> reporter: the labor crunch, s s, has become the number one threat to his business. >> i

for the pbs newshour, this is economics coespondent paul solman, reporting from new york. >> woodrufft, we turn to another installment of our weekly brief but spectacularri where we ask people about their passion. tonight, we hear from attorney robin steinberg. she's c.e.o. of "the bail oject," a national organization whose mission is to combat mass incarceration by paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income americans at risk of pretrial detention. >> so when i became a public defender, i had noildea how the ystem operated and it doesn't take long when you're a public defder to stand in the courtroom next to a client, watch the judge set bail and have the client rn to you and say, "i, i don't have that money," and inevitably, what happens is, the client wndl turn to youay, "i'll just plead guilty. they'll let me go home." and, you want to scream and you th should go to a jail cell because they don't have any money but that'shat happens every day. so jail is terrifying and its vient and it's dehumanizin and it can do everything from destroying your mental health to ur physical hea

tonight, our economics correspondent, paul solman, revisits how iall went down, and the impact todayf decisions made then.of it's part our weekly series,se "making e." >> reporter: so this is where in some sense the crisis began. >> yeah, this was the place where people were stumbling out of offices on the 15th of september 2008, the world having ended. >> reporter: the midtown manhattan headquarters of lehman brothers, whose collapseen years ago this week was the signal event of the 2008 financial crisis. >> it started in real estate and it started with subprime and that's the story everybody knows. how does that crisis in the suburbs of america move all the way back to nter of finance in new york. >> reporter: okay. how does it? >> banks are fragile things. classically we think of them as being funded by deposits with households putting their savings into the bank, and then the householders begin to get panicked and take all their money out. reporter: but, says economist and historian adam tooze, authoe ofew book "crashed"... >> banks like lehman don't have deposits.do what thes bo