The renewable energy company Evergreen Solar spent millions of dollars building a high tech plant to make solar panels. But after three years, the company is closing its Massachusetts factory.
With unemployment in the U.S. near 10 percent, many job seekers are settling for jobs that are lower paid and of lower status. But Eve Troeh reports that a better approach may be to keep your high standards in place, and to strive for purpose in a career.
Which companies should you be watching to get a good take on the American economic recovery in 2011? Marketplace economics correspondent Chris Farrell gives his top three picks.
Although the jobs report today showed the unemployment rate dropping from 9.8 to 9.4 percent, it's estimated that half of that drop is from people who have given up the job hunt altogether. Mitchell Hartman reports.
Kai Ryssdal talks to Heidi Moore from The Dealbook at The New York Times and Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal about how today's jobs numbers might affect the stock market.
The Labor Department said this morning that the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dropped from 9.8 percent down to 9.4 percent. Hugh Johnson explains.
Steve Chiotakis speaks with Jill Schlesinger about the Labor Department's report saying unemployment dropped almost a half-percent, while the government only added 103,000 jobs for the month.
