Jun 13 Political Checklist: Debate Offers Insight into GOP Field By Quinn Bowman Judy Woodruff and Hari Sreenivasan preview Monday's Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, the first of the election cycle. They also look at President Obama's effort to promote his jobs agenda in North Carolina. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch Political Checklist: Republicans Face Off in First Debate Judy Woodruff and Hari Sreenivasan sets the stage of the first GOP 2012 debate. Continue watching
Jun 10 New Alabama Immigration Law Tougher Than Arizona’s SB-1070 Measure With the stroke of a pen, Alabama's Gov. Robert Bentley signed into law this week a bill described on all sides of the immigration debate as the toughest enforcement measure in the country to date. Continue reading
Jun 08 The Morning Line: Obama to Renew Focus on Jobs By Tom LeGro President Obama repeated his oft-used line Tuesday about how when he wakes up in the morning his first thought is about how to get more Americans back to work. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Political Checklist: Troubled Economy a Problem for Obama The NewsHour politics team discuss how the economy affects Mr. Obama's job approval. Continue watching
Jun 03 Watch ‘Utterly Disappointing’ May Jobs Report: Why Aren’t Businesses Hiring? The U.S. unemployment report for May showed a sharp slowdown in hiring and a small increase in the unemployment rate. Judy Woodruff discusses the new jobs numbers and what they mean for the struggling American economic recovery with Lisa Lynch… Continue watching
Jun 03 Watch Shields, Brooks on ‘Discouraging’ Jobs Report, Debt Debate, Romney vs. Palin Shields and Brooks on Jobless Rate Woes, Romney vs. Palin… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch U.S. Economic Recovery Stumbles, Reviving Debate on Way Forward Economic Recovery Stumbles, Reviving Debate on Way Forward… Continue watching
May 18 Watch The Great Stagnation: Why Hasn’t Recent Technology Created More Jobs? As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman reports on why more good jobs haven't been created in recent years. Can new technological innovations create widespread job growth as past generations have seen?… Continue watching
May 06 Watch As Job Growth Continues, Focus Turns to Speed of U.S. Recovery The April jobs report showed healthy gains Friday, but also a rise in the unemployment rate. U.S. markets rose sharply in early trading, but surrendered most of their gains later in the day. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at… Continue watching