May 07 Watch Positive April Job Growth Tempered by Market Uncertainty in Europe Employers added 290,000 jobs last month, marking the biggest hiring increase in four years. Jeffrey Brown talks to two financial experts about the pace of the economic recovery and gets an update from Susie Gharib of PBS's Nightly Business Report… 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 30 Watch News Wrap: Goldman Sachs Faces Criminal Probe In other news Friday, the federal government began a criminal probe into financial firm Goldman Sachs, following the civil charges launched by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The government also reported that consumer spending helped lift the economy last quarter,… Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch What Drives Motivation in the Modern Workplace? As part of his ongoing coverage making sense of financial news, business and economics corespondent Paul Solman reports on what drives people's behavior in the modern workplace. Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch Bank Chiefs Take Heat on Capitol Hill Over Foreclosure Crisis With more than three million homeowners facing foreclosure this year, banking executives testified before a House committee about why relief isn't reaching individuals in need. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Tampa Faces Troubled Economic Recovery As part of the Spotlight City series in Tampa on how the economic crisis has affected attitudes toward government, Gwen Ifill talks to four Floridians about the unstable housing market, high unemployment rates, the soaring cost of living and the… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Winners and Losers of Florida’s Foreclosure Crisis Paul Solman reports from Florida on people who have lost their homes to foreclosures and the buyers who are snapping up those properties. Continue watching
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
Apr 02 Watch Jobs Report Hints Economy Could Be Inching Toward Recovery A new economic report showed March had the largest increase in new jobs in three years, but the unemployment rate held steady. Judy Woodruff talks to two economists about what those numbers could mean for the U.S. economy and American… Continue watching
Apr 02 Cash-Strapped States Labor to Fund Jobless Benefits By Online DA With 20 million Americans collecting jobless benefits, unemployment insurance systems around the nation are rapidly drying up. Can cash-strapped states handle the demand?… Continue reading