Sep 12 Watch Parsing the Numbers on Income, Poverty and Insurance from Latest U.S. Census Parsing the Numbers on Income, Poverty and Insurance from Latest U.S. Census… Continue watching
Sep 10 Watch School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State’s Wine Industry School of Wine: Training Students for Jobs in Washington State's Wine Industry… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch At ADA Anniversary, Disabled Workers Still Struggle More with Unemployment At ADA Anniversary, Disabled Workers Still Struggle More with Unemployment… Continue watching
Dec 02 Watch Creating Jobs in the Volunteer State: Why Are Employers Reluctant to Hire? Creating Jobs in the Volunteer State: What Are Businesses Doing?… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch Job-Seeking Vets Confront Stigma of ‘Falling Behind’ While Deployed More than 12 percent of the roughly 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were jobless last month, compared to 9 percent of the total population. As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman looks at… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch Obama Urges U.S. Employers to Hire Veterans President Obama declared that the "tide of war is receding" at a ceremony honoring the nation's veterans on Friday, as the military prepares to leave Iraq and begin winding down combat operations in Afghanistan. Judy Woodruff reports. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch Stubbornly High Jobless Rate Offers Little Hope to Unemployed The U.S. jobs report for October brought news of slow improvement for the American economy, but also continued worries that the stubbornly high unemployment rate isn't changing fast enough. Jeffrey Brown discusses the report with Catherine Rampell of The New… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch Good News on Many Economic Fronts; Oil, Housing Still Threaten Recovery A new report shows U.S. employers added 192,000 jobs in February and the jobless rate fell to 8.9 percent. Jeffrey Brown discusses the numbers and recovery prospects with former Labor Department Chief Economist Lisa Lynch and Nariman Behravesh, chief economist… Continue watching
Mar 04 February Unemployment Numbers: Good, But Don’t Pop the Champagne By Elizabeth Shell The unemployment numbers for February are in and though economist Peter Morici says " Don't Break Out the Champagne Just Yet," the data are encouraging. There are two separate surveys, remember - of "establishments" (places that employ folks) and "households"… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Obama Appeals to CEOs to Jumpstart Hiring President Obama invited top business executives to a White House meeting to elicit ideas for job growth and increase hiring. Gwen Ifill gets insight into the meeting with two of the executives in attendance. Continue watching