Oct 06 The unemployment rate and jobs total went down? What's up? By Paul Solman The unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in September, while the economy lost 33,000 jobs, according to the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest jobs report. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 8:47 How coming clean about financial struggle -- and counseling others -- became a calling By PBS News Hour Despite a prestigious career and graduate degrees from top schools, Elizabeth White stood at the edge of a financial cliff for many years following the Great Recession. Author of “55, Unemployed, and Faking Normal,” White is among many who have… Continue watching
Aug 04 July jobs report closes the near decade-long jobs gap By Kristen Doerer Employers added 209,000 jobs in July, continuing a long trend of substantial job growth and pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.3 percent. Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch 12:39 America should stand for more than just wealth, says Warren Buffett By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch 3:59 Falling unemployment, stalled growth: What the latest jobs report means for the economy By PBS News Hour According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.4 percent to 4.3 percent last month -- the lowest number in 16 years. At the same time, job growth seems to have stalled. Diane Swonk of Diane Swonk Economics… Continue watching
Jun 02 Analysis: Today's unemployment number fools us and President Trump, but for different reasons By Paul Solman A quick look at today’s headline unemployment number, and you’d think the U.S. job market was killing it with the official unemployment rate down again to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent last month. And yet, the economy only grew by… Continue reading
May 05 5 takeaways from April's jobs report By Kristen Doerer The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in April, putting us on track to close the jobs gap within the year. Here are some other numbers that matter. Continue reading
Apr 28 Rising numbers of rural youth are unemployed and out of school, and it's costing all of us By Tim Henderson, Stateline 4.9 million young Americans nationwide are disconnected-- unemployed and not in school. The rate of disconnected youth has soared in rural areas, costing taxpayers as much as $93 billion dollars annually. Continue reading
Apr 07 The U.S. economy added a mere 98,000 jobs while the unemployment rate went down. How does that work? By Kristen Doerer The unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 percent in March, the lowest since the Great Recession. But the U.S. economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Continue reading
Feb 13 Column: Why does the Fed keep lowering its unemployment threshold instead of raising rates? By Benn Steil, Emma Smith We're nearing the threshold used to estimate how low unemployment can get before inflation rises. Will the Fed raise interest rates?… Continue reading