Segments From This Episode

• Getting back to work after long-term unemployment

  by Mitchell Hartman

  A record number of Americans are long-term unemployed–six months or more. A lackluster job market is putting them back to work–slowly.

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• The economics of winning an Olympics

  by Rowan Moore Gerety

  Does a bidding country’s economy factor into whether it gets to host the Olympic games?

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• JPMorgan Chase will stop making student loans

  by Adriene Hill

  The country's biggest bank could stop taking new applications in October.

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• Unemployment falls to 7.3%, 169,000 jobs added

  by David Brancaccio

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the economy added 169,000 jobs last month, falling below analyst expectations. The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.3 percent.

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• Tech-savvy teachers push schools to new teaching apps

  by Nishat Kurwa

  

  A handful of big publishers win school district contracts again and again. But the latest generation of teachers is forcing districts to rethink business as usual.

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• More privacy concerns as leaks emerge that NSA can break encrypted data

  by David Brancaccio

  More NSA revelations means even more concern about online privacy.

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• Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers discusses latest jobs report

  by David Brancaccio

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the economy added 169,000 jobs last month, falling below analyst expectations. The unemployment rate ticked down to 7.3 percent.

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• PODCAST: Jobs numbers and the Olympics

  by David Brancaccio

  Jobs numbers came out today–it's been a slow economic recovery. And what role does a nation's economy play when the International Olympic Committee picks a host for the 2020 Olympic Games?

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