Kushner family?s real estate dealings land foreign-investor visa back in the spotlight

June 15, 2017 at 6:25 PM EDT

JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: how a little-known program designed to attract foreign investment is increasingly under the microscope, for economic reasons and political ones. Thousands of investors apply and participate annually, and one real estate business in particular has put it back in the spotlight in recent months: the family of Jared Kushner, the president?s son-in-law.

Our economics reporter, Paul Solman, has covered the controversies around the program before.

Here?s his latest update. It?s part of our weekly series Making Sense.

PAUL SOLMAN: The soaring real estate market in Jersey City, New Jersey, due south of Wall Street, a city becoming famous for its many murals and its wave of emigres from Manhattan and Brooklyn fleeing sky-high rents.

One neighborhood that?s on the rise, Journal Square, named after the 150-year Journal News.

One of its latter-day reporters, Terrence McDonald.

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