Understanding Depression
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, explains that depression is an illness not a weakness, and that real, physical changes in brain neurochemistry or in hormones often, "...prevent the depressed pa..
Unethical Behavior
People sometimes fail to consider the moral or ethical dimensions of behavior because they assume any action that doesn't violate the law is acceptable. While legal statutes are codified and enforceable by the judicial s..
United States Small Business Administration, The
This clip explains that the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is a source of information about the sometimes confusing welter of laws and regulations that apply to business. The SBA can also help entrepre..
United States and Russia During the Cold War, The
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb talks about U.S. attitudes towards Russia during the Cold War. "Did we give the Russians a fair shake? Yes, in a strategic sense bu..
Unspoken Social Compact, The
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich talks about what he calls "the unspoken social compact" between companies and their employees that used to assure increases in earnings and benefits for wor..
Untreated Manic-Depressive Illness
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison says that, when the illness goes untreated, there is a tendency over time for manic-depressive episodes to get more frequent, more extreme and more difficult to tre..
Ups and Downs: Consequences of Poverty
For those who live in poverty, perhaps because they are chronically unemployed or working for minimum wage, the end results can be grim. A job layoff, a protracted illness or other family emergency can trigger a precipit..
Ups and Downs: Diminishing Opportunity
The explosion of opportunity in America reached its peak in the Post-War boom years of the 1950s. But many sociologists contend that with the decline of industry in the United States and the emergence of the Information ..
Ups and Downs: Social Class in the United States: Fact or Fiction?
Despite the fact that nearly one in five Americans lives in poverty, most of those living in the United States insist that there is no such thing as social class in the U.S.
Ups and Downs: Upward Mobility
If there's even the slightest hint of a silver lining in the dark cloud of poverty in the United States, it's that upward mobility, while increasingly limited, is still possible for those living in the U.S., regardless o..