Jan 03 Watch 8:47 How Oregon is investing in the next generation of blue collar workers By PBS News Hour Over the next decade, economists and business leaders say America faces a shortage of millions of skilled workers for blue collar jobs as Baby Boomers retire. Now, Oregon is planning ahead by ramping up efforts to train Generation X'ers and… Continue watching
Dec 14 How to run a meeting that doesn’t suck By Vikram Mansharamani Meetings have a terrible reputation in business and for understandable reasons. Continue reading
Dec 04 The one fact you probably didn’t pick up on in November’s jobs report By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in November, beating out economists’ forecasts of 200,000, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5 percent. Continue reading
Nov 06 Do October’s job numbers signal good times (and an interest rate hike) to come? By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs in October, nudging the unemployment rate down to 5 percent. Continue reading
Oct 20 Is your job one of the best for work-life balance? By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Jobs and recruiting site Glassdoor ranked the top 25 jobs for work-life balance. Continue reading
Oct 02 Dispiriting job growth in September jobs report By Paul Solman, Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added a mere 142,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.1 percent. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 8:47 How does the fight for $15 affect the labor market? By PBS News Hour Three years since a small group of fast-food workers began protesting in demand of higher pay and better conditions, a minimum wage of $15 an hour is becoming a reality for many across the country. Jeffrey Brown gets two perspectives… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 4:28 News Wrap: France, UK pledge to take in thousands of refugees By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, hundreds of people broke through Hungarian police lines near the Serbian border to walk on the main highway to Budapest. Meanwhile, European leaders debated how to handle the new wave of refugees. Also, President Obama… Continue watching
Sep 04 What does the August jobs report mean for the Fed? By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 173,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in August — the lowest it’s been since April 2008. Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch 8:42 Do labor-saving robots spell doom for American workers? By PBS News Hour The onslaught of automation that's replacing human workers -- from golf caddies to bank tellers -- may be putting us on a path to humanitarian crisis, says Jerry Kaplan, author of "Humans Need Not Apply." As technology grows and jobs… Continue watching