The D.C. region is home to the hottest market for cybersecurity jobs in the nation. Cybersecurity deals with keeping information safe — everything from your recent Target purchase to the most sensitive of intelligence at the NSA. There were 23,000 postings for cybersecurity jobs here last year. That’s the largest concentration anywhere in the country, roughly double Silicon Valley and San Francisco combined.
Category Archives: Money
Big banks face record fines for allowing drug money to pass through their systems
Violations to the Bank Secrecy Act allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder money in the US. This spot includes a clip from an interview with California Congresswoman Maxine Waters in her office.
Filed for NPR Newscast on October 23, 2013.
Soybean disease costs billions and effects global crop
Filed for The World, a co-production of The BBC, PRI and WGBH Boston, in May 2005.
Washington Among The Most Targeted Cities For Homeowner Scams
The D.C. region is among the worst in the nation when it comes to foreclosure rescue fraud. That’s when desperate homeowners seek help from a company promising to save them from foreclosure. These companies are often fake, or part of a larger fraud.
Immigrants Fear it Will Get Harder to Send Money Home
Somali-American women at a fundraiser in Falls Church, Virginia. The proceeds will be sent to Somalia via a money transfer service, as the other option is to fly there with cash. There are no banks in Somalia.
A remittance may be the most common financial transaction you’ve never heard of. That’s what it’s called when an immigrant sends money to someone living in another country. More than a million immigrants call the D.C. region home, and the Inter-American Development Bank estimates 90% have made one of these money transfers. Last year, global remittances were valued at $530 billion.
While using a money transfer service is just as legal as using an ATM, because it involves cross border transactions to places like Somalia, there’s a perception of risk. That’s led some banks in the US and Europe to close the accounts of remittance companies, which in effect shuts them down.
When no money means no school lunch for kids
As produced for Marketplace.
There’s no federal guideline for what a public school should do when a child doesn’t have money to pay for lunch. That means the experience for a young child can be completely different, even at schools just miles apart. So even in kindergarten — no money can equal no food.
Elementary students learn math running their own credit union
From the public radio program Metro Connection in 2004.
Jennifer L. Strong 