The Obama administration's latest stimulus progress report explains that despite double-digit unemployment, things aren't as bad as they would have been without it. Steve Chiotakis talks to Marketplace's Sam Eaton.
More employers are using Skype, iChat and other video conferencing technologies to screen job applicants. Mitchell Hartman talks to experts about how to make the best of a video interview.
Katharine Brooks, director of the University of Texas Austin's Liberal Arts Centers, talks with Kai Ryssdal about what's behind the drop in teaching positions for historians and liberal arts professors.
The economy lost 85,000 jobs in December, the unemployment rate held steady at 10%, and a look behind the numbers shows a jobless picture that's even worse. John Dimsdale reports.
U.S. employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, a number much worse than the 8,000 job cuts economists had expected. But the government's unemployment rate stood still at 10%. Bill Radke talks with Mark Zandi at Moody's Economy.com
NASA only has about five more space shuttle flights to go, and that means some 7,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida face unemployment. The state is trying to find new work for those employees. Bob Moon reports.
Morten Hansen, management professor at U.C. Berkeley, talks with Kai Ryssdal about the surprising list of best-performing CEOs in the latest Harvard Business Review.
American companies cut an estimated 84,000 jobs
in December according to ADP Employer Services. That's the smallest drop in almost two years. Steve Chiotakis gets more from Richard DeKaser of Woodley Park Research.
The Conference Board released a survey among people working that found only 45 percent of those polled were satisfied with their jobs. Employees under age 25 were the most unhappy. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.