Jobs

More than 14 million Americans are out of work. In this special one-hour Marketplace broadcast, host Kai Ryssdal examines what that means for the economy and how to get Americans back to work.

A 60-something reflects on the different generations fighting for jobs in the workforce.

Mass layoffs are still in force, more than two years after the recession started. The newly unemployed face stiff competition amongst their peers, but also find strength in their numbers.

A newly turned 50-year-old talks about the kinds of obstacles faced when doing contract work as a job.

The White House wants to extend unemployment insurance benefits, but critics say that will give the jobless an incentive to stay jobless.

A personal account of the job search from the generation who's just entering the market.

Extending payroll tax cuts and other proposals in the jobs package might sound good in the short-term. But there are some long-term implications.

President Obama continues to pitch his jobs plan to Americans and Congress today. The plan would cost $447 billion, but the president says the plan wouldn't raise the deficit by a dime.

At the crossroads of our national debate about jobs and our national debate about health care debt… Is the (fictional) city of Hobbs. Its …

The president's national job training program takes a page from one underway in Georgia. But is Georgia's model easily scalable?