May 08 Are robots coming for your blue-collar jobs? By Making Sen$e Editor On average, the arrival of one new industrial robot in a local labor market coincides with an employment drop of 5.6 workers. Continue reading
May 08 Column: Why you need to get financially naked with your partner By Erin Lowry For other generations “the number” may refer to bedfellows, but millennials have a new type of number to be concerned with: the debt number. Continue reading
May 05 Watch 3:20 News Wrap: U.S. employers added 211,000 jobs in April By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department reported that employers added a net of 211,000 jobs in April, up sharply from March, and dropping the unemployment rate to 4.4, a nearly 10-year low. Also, a U.S. Navy SEAL was… Continue watching
May 05 Watch Can Puerto Rico climb back from bankruptcy and shrinking population? By PBS News Hour Puerto Rico essentially filed for bankruptcy this week in order to restructure more than $120 billion in debt and pension obligations. With the economy mired in a slump, the government is reducing public services, pensions are likely to be cut… Continue watching
May 05 Inside Janesville, the Democratic town Paul Ryan calls home By Diane Lincoln Estes What happens to a factory town after the factory is gone? Paul Ryan's hometown of Janesville is a former manufacturing town that has struggled since the Great Recession. Continue reading
May 05 5 takeaways from April’s jobs report By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in April, putting us on track to close the jobs gap within the year. Here are some other numbers that matter. Continue reading
May 04 Watch 9:14 It’s a slow, painful recovery for this former manufacturing town By PBS News Hour Once a proud industrial town, Janesville, Wisconsin, was knocked for a loop in 2008 when General Motors idled its assembly plant, the area's long-time largest employer. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Amy Goldstein, author of "Janesville: An American Story,"… Continue watching
May 04 In this struggling Wisconsin town, families come to terms with needing help By Amy Goldstein In Janesville, Wisconsin, the nation’s oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. As many as 9,000 people lost their jobs, and families tumbled out of the… Continue reading
May 04 Can employers make you rely on Medicare and drop their insurance? By Philip Moeller Is it legal for employers to pressure their employees to drop workplace health insurance? Phil Moeller answers that question and more in his weekly column, Ask Phil. Continue reading
May 04 Airline scandals attract congressional scrutiny By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Senators from both parties said airlines must improve the way they treat their passenger, but they also said airline employees must be treated with respect. Lawmakers also revived talk of a congressionally imposed "Passenger Bill of Rights."… Continue reading