Oct 07 Smart robots will take over a third of jobs by 2025, Gartner says By Joshua Barajas As industrial robots continue to acquire cognitive skills, machines will replace one in three human workers by 2025, Gartner analysts predicted Monday. Continue reading
Jul 03 A better-than-expected birthday present for U.S. in June jobs report By Simone Pathe Despite concerns about sluggish growth in the first quarter of 2014, the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and the economy added more than 200,000 jobs for the fifth straight month… Continue reading
Apr 06 Watch What’s the quality of the jobs gained in March? By PBS News Hour NewsHour takes another look tonight at the latest unemployment report. Bloomberg senior economist Nela Richardson speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about whether the the jobs counted as recovered are of the same quality as those lost in the Great Recession. Richardson… Continue watching
Apr 06 Watch Boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico By PBS News Hour Mexico is now the third biggest trading partner of the United States. But with poverty afflicting half of the country's 120 million people, the country faces an uphill battle toward future prosperity. Correspondent Martin Fletcher reports from Querétaro.… Continue watching
Feb 14 Watch Extreme winter weather causes widespread disruption for U.S. economy By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 13 Watch In ‘second machine age’ of robots, it’s time for humans to get creative By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Entrepreneur aims to connect millions of Indians with better jobs By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet By PBS News Hour Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities. Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch News Wrap: California to cut off state-supplied water due to drought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 20 More than 200 million people were unemployed in the world in 2013 By Simone Pathe Worldwide, the number of unemployed people rose by 5 million in 2013 to 202 million, according to the International Labor Organization's Global Employment Trends report. Continue reading