Mar 12 Premium Job Board Sued for Promising Customers Jobs That Don't Exist By Nick Corcodilos If you are a job seeker looking on massive online job boards for opportunities, beware. You may fall victim to a scam like the alleged scam by premium job board TheLadders, a website that is now the subject of a… Continue reading
Mar 11 How a 'Start-Stop-Start' Strategy Can Maximize Your Social Security Benefits By Laurence Kotlikoff Larry Kotlikoff says that maximizing your Social Security benefits is more complicated than reaching retirement and receiving the "green light" to start collecting Social Security. In some cases, you could receive the highest amount of benefits with a "start-stop-start" strategy. Continue reading
Mar 11 How a 'Start-Stop-Start' Strategy Can Maximize Your Social Security Benefits By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff Larry Kotlikoff says that maximizing your Social Security benefits is more complicated than reaching retirement and receiving the "green light" to start collecting Social Security. In some cases, you could receive the highest amount of benefits with… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch How Will Employment, Earnings Change as U.S. Job Market Recovers? How Will Employment, Earnings Change as U.S. Job Market Recovers?… Continue watching
Mar 08 Is It Inevitable That the United States Will Default? By Paul Solman With all the talk of the fiscal cliff and the sequester, I respond to a reader who wants to know if the economic dominoes are likely to fall, causing a government default, and I weigh in on why… Continue reading
Mar 08 Companies Hire 236,000 in February, But Long-Term Unemployment Unchanged In February, 236,000 new jobs were added to the economy, which was higher than expected and the unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percent. But the 7.7 percent unemployment rate -- the official unemployment rate -- is only a small part… Continue reading
Mar 08 Companies Hire 236,000 in February, But Long-Term Unemployment Unchanged By Paul Solman In February, 236,000 new jobs were added to the economy, which was higher than expected and the unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percent. But the 7.7 percent unemployment rate -- the official unemployment rate -- is only a small part… Continue reading
Mar 08 Is It Inevitable That the United States Will Default? By Ellen Rolfes By Paul Solman With all the talk of the fiscal cliff and the sequester, I respond to a reader who wants to know if the economic dominoes are likely to fall, causing a government default, and I weigh… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch February Brings Drop in Unemployment, Best Job Report in Four Years Things are looking up for job seekers. The February 2013 jobs report showed the addition of 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent, making it the best report in four years. Ray Suarez examines the data and… Continue watching
Mar 07 The Depressing Data on Early Childhood Investment By Paul Solman Photo by Marc Romanelli/Getty Images. Jerome Kagan is one of the pioneers of developmental child psychology. But I interviewed him a few weeks ago with an economic motivation. PBS NewsHour has begun to explore a virtual reality project designed to… Continue reading