Jul 13 Watch Preval Assesses Haiti’s Quake Recovery Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Politics and Aid Intermingle in Haiti’s Recovery Margaret Warner talks with Ray Suarez, who has returned to Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch France Deliberates Financial Reforms in Face of European Debt Crisis As part of his ongoing series of reports on making sense of economic news, Paul Solman speaks with French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde about the European debt crisis, as France examines new calls for austerity and reforming its retirement system. Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch As Recovery Uncertainty Remains, Extending Jobless Benefits Debated As Democrats and Republicans in the Senate remain gridlocked on extending federal unemployment benefits, Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view from William Beach of the Heritage Foundation and Christine Owens of the National Employment Law Project. Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch Jobs Report Shows Recovery May be Losing Steam June's jobs report showed a mixed picture of the economic recovery with unemployment falling to its lowest level in nearly a year, but with weak hiring in the private sector. Continue watching
Jun 21 Hurricane Season Could Bring More Misery to Haiti, Gulf Coast By Talea Miller The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projecting a busy 2010 hurricane season, with as many as seven major hurricanes possible. Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch Financial Crisis Does Little to Dim Graduates’ Wall Street Aspirations As part of his continuing coverage making sense of the economy, Paul Solman talks to Harvard economist Ben Friedman about the college graduates who continue to flock to Wall Street, three years into the financial crisis. Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch U.S. Stocks Tumble as Weak Jobs Report Reflects Census Hires Stocks fell over a weak jobs report for May, which attributed the growth of employment to temporary U.S. Census jobs. For more on the jobs report and the market reaction, Jeffrey Brown talks to two market watchers. Continue watching
May 07 Analysts See Signs of Recovery in Jobs Report By Carolyn O'Hara The U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs in April, a welcome sign that an economic recovery may be taking root. But the unemployment rate also rose to 9.9 percent. Four economists and market watchers make sense of the latest jobs report. Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Florida Struggles to Keep Up With Demands on Unemployment System In the latest in a series of reports making sense of the economy, Paul Solman examines troubles for both those receiving and those paying for jobless benefits in Florida, where jobless rates are the sixth highest in the country. Continue watching