Jan 08 Watch Jobless Rate Holds Steady, Dashing Hopes for Speedy Recovery The U.S. economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, keeping the unemployment rate at 10 percent and dampening the outlook for a quick economic recovery. Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch News Wrap: Stocks Muted on Weak Job Numbers In other news, stocks rose slightly Friday despite news that the economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, and the FBI arrested two men suspected of planning terror attacks in New York. Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch Job Growth Stalls as Economic Outlook Remains Murky The unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent in December, according to new figures released Friday. As part of his continuing series of reports on making sense of the economy, Paul Solman travels to Atlanta to gauge the hiring outlook… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch Will 2010 Bring a New Recession? Stocks are making gains, but new jobs remain elusive. Judy Woodruff asks a panel of experts whether 2010 will be a year of economic recovery, or merely the start of a double-dip recession. Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch Economy May Hold Hopeful Signals for New Year In terms of the economy, it's good riddance to 2009. As for 2010, Ray Suarez speaks with a panel of experts about reasons for hopes and fears in the new year. Continue watching
Dec 31 Year in Review: Reporting on the Growing Ranks of the Unemployed By Paul Solman It's been an odd year for anyone who, like your correspondent, makes a living in and around economics. Odd because, for me at least, there's a version of survivor guilt: The worse the world has gotten, the more interest there's… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch Looking Back at Wall Street's Behavior in 2009 Jeffrey Brown speaks with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and John Cassidy of The New Yorker about the fallout from the financial crisis, the big bailouts and Wall Street's mentality. Continue watching
Dec 23 Signs of Economic Recovery in Hard-Hit Elkhart, Ind. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that in the heart of unemployment country, Elkhart, Indiana, things are looking up -- or, more accurately perhaps, "less down." Unemployment there now stands at 14.5 percent, reasonably well below its peak of… Continue reading
Dec 18 On Friday's NewsHour... The agreement reached at the Copenhagen Climate Summit is our lead story tonight, followed by an interview with Barry Scheck of the "Innocence Project" about the release of a wrongly-convicted man after 35 years, a Paul Solman conversation about the… Continue reading
Dec 11 Patchwork Nation: Health Care System Buckles as Tourism Slows in Ore. By Anna Shoup In Lincoln City, Ore., where the local economy remains heavily dependent on tourism, many jobs lack health insurance. And when jobs become scarce, even more find themselves struggling to find care. Continue reading