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Sep 01

Jobs grade for August: a ‘mild disappointment’

By Paul Solman

The economy added 156,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate remained largely unchanged at 4.4 percent.

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Jul 07

What can you actually learn from the monthly unemployment number?

By Paul Solman

The U.S. unemployment rate crawled up to 4.4 percent in June. NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman looks at what that means for the economy.

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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.

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Mar 10

Steady jobs growth clears the way for interest rate hike

By Kristen Doerer

The U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.7 percent.

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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?…

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Feb 03

With steady job creation in January, slow wage growth still puzzles

By Kristen Doerer

Wage growth "has been the unfinished work of this economic recovery,” said Mark Hamrick. “It helps to explain the remaining level of dissatisfaction among Americans with the economy.”…

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Jan 12

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Is Obama’s economic legacy one of missed opportunity or success?

By PBS News Hour

What is President Obama’s economic legacy? Did his efforts to turn the country around after the 2008 financial crisis constitute a robust recovery, or too little, too late? Economics correspondent Paul Solman assembled a panel of economic experts to discuss…

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Jan 09

The earnings gap between black and white men has barely shrunk in 30 years. Why?

By Making Sen$e Editor

Over the past 75 years, the racial gap in economic rank has narrowed sharply among men at the top of the earnings ladder, but changed very little among those at the middle and bottom.

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Oct 27

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Why rich nations may be their own worst enemy

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Economist Todd Buchholz rails against what America has become: a people who want everything but aren’t willing to pay for it. In “The Price of Prosperity,” he suggests that wealthy nations such as the U.S. inflict harm on themselves, even…

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Oct 18

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The economy is improving, yet these voters don’t trust the data

By PBS News Hour

Unemployment in the U.S. is at 5 percent, a relative low, and 10 million jobs have been created during the Obama administration. But a new survey finds that many Americans are experiencing high levels of economic anxiety, a factor that…

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