Jun 07 Will You Work Forever? EmbedVideo(6642, 482, 304); Video shot and produced by David Pelcyger Next week, PBS NewsHour will launch an interactive project on the so-called "death of retirement." Many of us will continue to work well past the traditional retirement… Continue reading
Jun 07 U-7 Up; Black Youth Unemployment Hits 42 Percent By Paul Solman Our U-7 index includes everyone in the government's U-3: everyone who said they wanted a job and had looked for one in the past four weeks. It also adds everyone who said they wanted one, hadn't looked in the past… Continue reading
Jun 07 Over 20 Percent Youth Joblessness and Still No Apprenticeships? By Paul Solman Photo courtesy of Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Robert Lerman is a centrist economist whose first NewsHour appearance in 2011 generated real wrath. Many viewers and the organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) objected to his assertion… Continue reading
Jun 07 U-7 Up; Black Youth Unemployment Hits 42 Percent By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Our U-7 index includes everyone in the government's U-3: everyone who said they wanted a job and had looked for one in the past four weeks. It also adds everyone who said they wanted one, hadn't looked… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch News Wrap: Economy Added 175,000 Jobs in May, but Unemployment Grew In other news Friday, although 175,000 more jobs were created in May, unemployment rose to 7.6 percent. Also, a gunman fired at vehicles near a college in Santa Monica, Calif., killing one person and injuring several others. At the time… Continue watching
Jun 06 Over 20 Percent Youth Joblessness and Still No Apprenticeships? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Photo courtesy of Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Robert Lerman is a centrist economist whose first NewsHour appearance in 2011 generated real wrath. Many viewers and the organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) objected… Continue reading
Jun 06 Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank By Diane Lincoln Estes // Paul Solman recently sat down with with Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman. Earlier we posted an excerpt from our interview with David Stockman, the former politician and businessman who's out with a much talked about book, "The Great Deformation."… Continue reading
Jun 06 Paul Krugman on Why David Stockman Is a Crank By Diane Lincoln Estes By Diane Lincoln Estes // Paul Solman recently sat down with with Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman. Earlier we posted an excerpt from our interview with David Stockman, the former politician and businessman who's out with a much talked about… Continue reading
Jun 06 Why David Stockman Yearns for 19th Century America By Diane Lincoln Estes // David Stockman, budget director under President Reagan, spoke to Paul Solman on The PBS NewsHour Tuesday. As regular readers already know, we recently aired an interview with David Stockman, the former budget director under President Reagan and private equity… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 'Economics Is Not a Morality Play': Paul Krugman on Managing Financial Crisis Should we have let foundering financial firms fail in 2008? Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Paul Krugman to discuss the provocative bestseller "The Great Deformation" by David Stockman and the government's role in mediating economic meltdowns. Continue watching