Apr 05 Watch News Wrap: U.S. Expresses Concerns Over Karzai's Taliban Remarks In other news Monday, the Obama administration voiced continuing concerns over relations with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, and gunman in Iraq killed a Shiite family of six on the heels of a violent weekend in Baghdad. Continue watching
Apr 02 Patchwork Nation: Unemployment Rate Stories From Very Different Places By Anna Shoup A lot of economic numbers and letters have been flying around this recession: unemployment rates, foreclosure rates, and L-, U- and W-shaped recessions. Patchwork Nation even has its own Economic Hardship Index. On Friday, the March unemployment report… Continue reading
Apr 02 U.S. Adds 162,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Remains 9.7% Khalifah Varnado reads employment information at a job expo in Arizona earlier this week. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images.) The U.S. economy showed signs of life in March as employers added the most workers to their payrolls in three… Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Florida Struggles to Keep Up With Demands on Unemployment System In the latest in a series of reports making sense of the economy, Paul Solman examines troubles for both those receiving and those paying for jobless benefits in Florida, where jobless rates are the sixth highest in the country. Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Jobs Report Hints Economy Could Be Inching Toward Recovery A new economic report showed March had the largest increase in new jobs in three years, but the unemployment rate held steady. Judy Woodruff talks to two economists about what those numbers could mean for the U.S. economy and American… Continue watching
Apr 02 Cash-Strapped States Labor to Fund Jobless Benefits By Online DA With 20 million Americans collecting jobless benefits, unemployment insurance systems around the nation are rapidly drying up. Can cash-strapped states handle the demand?… Continue reading
Apr 01 How Do Our Current Economic Troubles Compare to the 1970s? Question: It seems that comparisons of our current economic troubles to the Great Depression are exaggerated. How would you compare today to the recession of the 1970s? Paul Solman: Pretty close to the worst previous post-… Continue reading
Apr 01 NUMMI Car Plant Closes in California By Jason Breslow The last 1,500 employees at the West Coast's only car plant will be out of a job by day's end Thursday when a 26-year experiment in auto-making officially comes to a close. The New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. plant,… Continue reading
Mar 31 How Do Other Countries Afford Universal Health Care? Question: I have heard repeatedly that every major economy, besides the U.S., has universal health care. I have also heard that the Medicare program, which obviously doesn’t cover everyone, is headed for bankruptcy. How do these other countries afford to… Continue reading
Mar 30 Economic Insight for Millenials Question: What are the top three bits of economic insight that Millennials should take note of as we face the world post-college during this period of economic recession? Paul Solman: 1. Internalize the basic message of economics: Decision-making is the… Continue reading