>> reporter: for the pbs newshour, this is economics correspondent paul solman, reporting from newark, new jersey and the comedy cellar in new york. >> woodruff: you can see the lucas brothers on their "brick city" tour, with shows in philadelphia this weekend and across the country starting in january. and a quk news update before we go. house republicans moved tonight to add $5 billion for a border wall to a temporary funding bill to avert a government shutdown ahead of tomorrow's midnight deadline. that's after president trump said he would not sign the bill otherwise. this evening, senate minority leader chuck scher said that "everyone knows" that bill can'i pathe senate. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here. tomorrow eveni for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this ogram was made ssible by the

economics correspondent paul solman explores whether bedriverless trucks could come kings of the roadur weekly look at economics, "making sense."ep >>ter: longtime trucker finn murphy, inadvertently showing me how tough a job a trucker's can be. >> so what i need to do around before i get on a low bridge or some other nightmare that i don't want to get involved in. >> reporter: despite such subtleties, though, says murphy, the future of work on the road is just around the corner: the driverless truck.t' >> i thinkimminent, yeah. i think it's going to happen within the next three years or wh, where you have a level-four autonomous vehicleh means it doesn't need a human operator. >> reporte finn murphy is a long-haul human operator, has been since he dropped out of college in the early '80s. he's now at the top of the trucking hierarchy: a and mover of pricey cargo like art.> o, movers, we're called bed buggers. >> reporter: bed buggers?, >> yd buggers. and our trucks are called roach coaches, because it has people's stuff in it. and then, the flatbed haulers, they're called skateboarde

economics correspondent paul solman has our encore look at the joy of giving. it's part of our weekly segmnst "making see," which airs every mursday on the "newshour." >> i want you t my friend monkey. hello! do you want to say hel >> reporter: it is better to give than to receive. you may have heard it when you were about this age or even in the last few weeks, when you bought out the entire christmas list. >> look - monkey has bowl just like you. you don't have any treats and neither does monkey. >> reporter: but better for whom? a behavioral economics experiment has come up with a provocative answer. l i'm going to give them you. >> reporter: psychology professor elizabeth dunn designed this test to see if even very young kids could beha happier givingreceiving. >> we worked with kind of the toddler equivalent of gold, namely goldfish crac we gave them a bunch goldfish gar themselves, and then w them the chance to give some of these goldfish away to a puppet named monkey. ey will you give one to mo >> yeah. >> reporter: dunn recorded dozens of kids doing thi

our economics correspondent paul solman caught up with the lucas brothers as part of our weekly series, making sen$e. >> reporter: a comic take on a scary, albeit exaggerated, stat: >> we read one out of three black dudes gets shot or arrested before turning 34. we just turned 33. getting close. (laughter) >> rep lucas, a.k.a., the lucas brothers-- a comedy team unafraid to tackle tough subjects, from violence tc econnequality. >> the town that we are from, newark, new jersey wasmooted the thir dangerous city in the country. when we found that out, we were very disappointed, because we thought we were going to get the number one ranking this year. (laughter) n reporter: the duo has b the rise the past few years, first with an animated tv series, "the lucas brothers moving compa," then roles in e movie "22 jump street," recently their netix special." on drugs." but here's where they grew up: inner city newark, new jersey.l >> it's stre. >> this is nothing like hollywood. this is the opposite of hollywood. >> reporter: that striking contrast, between the poverty of their hometown and the

economiccorrespondent paul solman has our profile of a leading figure within the federal reserve. one thing we must note: fed officials do not make publicbe comments jusre a meeting of the federal reserve open market committee. m thting is next week, but paul did this interview well in advance for our weekly segment "making sense." >> i'll run in place because >>'s chilly. eporter: in boise, idaho last month, a small nonprofit with an unassumito but lofty vi >> oh this is cool. may i introduce myself?y. >> absolut eile, mary. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: mary daly is the new president of the san francisco federal reserve bank, responsible for, among oer duties, monitoring the economies of the nine western states and pacific territories. >> if you don't visit the areas you don't really get all the information you needthe different ways that firms and businesses and individuals and households might interact, so you need people on the gund ke regional fed presidents to go out there and learn. >> everyone in a black smock is actually aemployee. >> reporter: that's why c.e.o. trac

and boston, this is economics correspondent paul solman, happily sharing this news with you, the pbs newshour audience. >> brangham: fally tonight, we've been talking throughout this week about iraq and about isis. jeffrey brown brgs us a conversation with an iraqi- american poet and auth who has helped publicize the plight of the women who have been abducted and sold into slavery for years in her native country. >> brown: a crowded friday night at the ishtar restaurant in sterling heights, michigan, where dunya mikhail, her husband and friends often gathplan the activities of what thecall the "mesopotamian forum": iraqi- born americans putting o literary, musical and other events to help preserve their culture. but for several years, mikhail has been obsessed with events far away. in northern iraq, where in 2014 isis forces set about to destroy a people: the ethnically kurdish yazidi, members of an ancientct sehe islamic state considered heretics. an estimated 3000 or more men were killed, often in pits that n uld becomeass graves. and some 6000 wore taken captive, many sold in a ma