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Sure, YouTube is the place to get your fix of cute babies and cats, but how-to videos are also becoming increasingly popular — and lucrative. YouTube says hundreds of entrepreneurs earn more than $100,000 a year through a program that shares ad revenue with people who post videos regularly. One of the stars: a guy who teaches you how to tie a tie.

Elected officials in San Diego are either opposed to Proposition 19 or don’t want to make their position public, according to the results of a KPBS survey. Find out where they stand.

The U.S. government's sweeping takeover plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was aimed at stabilizing the U.S. financial system and ensuring the availability of mortgages. Here, a look at some of the reasons the government decided to act and the implications for taxpayers.

When they plugged California's $42 billion budget hole in February, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders said everyone had to give up something to repair the state's finances.

Governor Jerry Brown appears ready to sign a majority-vote budget crafted by state Democrats, thus ending his efforts to broker a bipartisan deal in the legislature. We speak to KQED's Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers about the key elements of the budget plan, and the impact it could have throughout California.

Households' net worth rose 2.1 percent last quarter -- the four straight quarterly gain. Yet tumbling stock prices have reduced their wealth since then. Some economists say Americans' net worth may now be down slightly for the year. That helps explain why many say it will at least 2012 or 2013 before Americans' wealth returns to pre-recession levels.

The rental market hasn't seen an uptick in business even though home sales continue to decline. The rental vacancy rate is at 10.6 percent, near an all-time high. But changing attitudes may boost the rental market going forward.

There's no question the economic recovery is going slowly. There's also no question that the gap between rich and poor Americans has grown wider than any time since the Great Depression. Analysts explore the links between income inequality and troubles in the overall economy.

Worker productivity grew at the fastest pace in nearly six years in the second quarter while labor costs fell by the most in nine years, as companies slashed costs to survive the recession. Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at an annual rate of 6.6 percent in the April-June quarter.

The legal limit for the national debt is $14.3 trillion, and the federal government could run out of money later in the summer if the limit is not raised. We'll discuss how San Diego will be affected if the debt ceiling is not raised. Plus, hear the main arguments against raising the debt limit.