Feb 24 Watch Jobs Bill Passes Senate with Boost from Republicans Democrats say the $35 million jobs bill that passed the Senate Wednesday could create a quarter of a million jobs. The legislation would temporarily suspend payroll taxes for businesses that hire unemployed workers. Margaret Warner talks to a Washington Post… Continue watching
Feb 22 Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate By Spencer Michels A 33-year-old math and science whiz kid -- working out of his house in California's Silicon Valley -- may be revolutionizing how people all over the world will learn math. He is Salman Khan, and until a few months… Continue reading
Feb 19 Obama Plan Will Redirect TARP Funds to Homeowners By Jason Breslow President Obama announced a new program Friday that redirects $1.5 billion from the $700 billion bank bailout fund to aid states hardest hit by the housing crisis. The federal aid will go to housing finance agencies in the five states… Continue reading
Feb 18 After Losing Its Bookstore, Laredo Tries to Write the Next Chapter By Tom LeGro The last bookstore in Laredo, Texas, closed its doors for good one month ago this week. This bilingual and bicultural border town, long challenged by high illiteracy rates, is now adjusting to its new reality. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch One Year Later, Stimulus Appears to Yield Mixed Results President Barack Obama touted the one-year-old stimulus legislation for continuing to create jobs, even as many Americans question the potency of the recovery. Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Cochrane of the University of Chicago and Lawrence Mishel, president of the… Continue watching
Feb 05 Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%, but 2009 Was Worse Than Reported Employers cut 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low of 9.7 percent, according to the Labor Department's monthly report on Friday. The jobless rate was 10 percent in November and December. The… Continue reading
Feb 05 Watch Jobless Rate Drops, but Fuller Recovery Still Appears Distant The economy shed 20,000 jobs in January, but there were new hopes of economic growth as the nation's unemployment rate ticked down to 9.7 percent. Jim Lehrer speaks with a pair of experts about the latest numbers, as well as… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch Stand-up Economist Finds the Light Side of a 'Dismal Science' Economics isn't exactly a side-splitting discipline, but at a recent economics convention in Atlanta, self-proclaimed "stand-up economist" Yoram Bauman showed it's possible to infuse the sober science with monetary mirth. Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch Obama Jobs Push Focusing on Small Business President Obama is looking to cut the nation's unemployment rate by offering more aid for small business, but a plan to borrow from TARP has some lawmakers balking. Continue watching
Feb 02 Tuesday's Headlines: Budget Hearings; 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Underway By Tom LeGro One day after the Obama administration released its $3.8 trillion budget plan, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, are set to explain it Tuesday before congressional committees. Also on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates… Continue reading