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This Week (10/12)
With gas prices spiking and home values crumbling, the American dream of commuting to work from the fringes of suburbia has become an American nightmare. Many are facing a hard choice: Paying for gas or paying the mortgage. How did it come to this? It's not just about America's financial crisis; it's also about big problems with our national infrastructure. NOW on PBS takes a close-up look at our inadequate transportation network and visits some people paying a high price - in both dollars and quality of life - just to get to work. Do we have the means to modernize both our infrastructure and our lifestyles?
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Hosted by veteran journalist David Brancaccio, who joined the series in fall 2003 after a decade as host of public radio's "Marketplace," NOW on PBS pursues the stories overlooked by other public affairs broadcasts and travels the nation to shed light on the important public policy issues that have real-world impact on working Americans.Air Date
Sundays from 1-1:30 p.m. & 2-2:30 a.m. ET
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