About Recession Rx

Recession Rx provides Southern Nevadans with economic solutions and resources through a network of trusted community partners and local experts. Host Cathy Hanson will cover how local Nevada families can manage their finances, find new opportunities and reach out for help when they need it most.

To contact Recession Rx, you can email rx@vegaspbs.org

Cathy Hanson, Host
Cathy Hanson is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience in broadcast news. Most recently she was the executive producer and host of Caucus Countdown and Capitol Issues at Vegas PBS. Hanson was a visiting professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas from 2004-2008, where she taught broadcast news, investigative reporting and podcasting. She served as the Director of Communications for the City of Las Vegas from 1995-2000, introducing the city’s award-winning Web site and cable television channel. 

Jay Jones, Reporter
Jay Jones is an award-winning journalist whose travels have taken him to all 50 states and more than 40 countries, covering everything from a pie-baking contest in Iowa to famine in Somalia. He has worked in broadcast journalism for nearly 40 years, including seven years with the BBC in both England and Northern Ireland. Jay has witnessed the massive changes in Las Vegas – and covered them – since moving here in 1998. In addition to reporting for Recession Rx, Jay writes regularly for several well-known publications, including the Los Angeles Times. 

Vegas PBS
For more than 40 years, Vegas PBS has provided Southern Nevada with quality, commercial free programming, media and media delivery technology. Vegas PBS provides broadcast TV and cable over seven channels with an additional six educational channels provided directly to the classroom. Vegas PBS local productions include, Nevada Week in Review, Your Health Matters, Outdoor Nevada, Wonders of the West, Inside Education, Homework Hotline, CCSD Varsity Quiz, election debates and coverage and daily live classes for CCSD Virtual High School. In 2009, Vegas PBS completes construction on its Educational Technology Campus, a model for sustainability and green building practices representing the first television station in North America to publicly register for LEED Gold Certification prior to construction. Officially opening in August 2009, the Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus will house Vegas PBS studios and offices, the CCSD Virtual High School, Educational Media Services, the Emergency Response Data-casting System, public meeting rooms and training facilities. Visit www.VegasPBS.org for additional information and programming highlights.