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Best and worst U.S. states to find a job
[ ]()As in most cases, location matters. For job seekers, location may just be essential. The U.S. unemployment rate has been hovering around the 9 percent rate across the country for a few months...
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Top U.S. states for high school and college grad job-seekers
[ ]()High school graduates are finding themselves in a tough position in today's dire jobs market, but those with college degrees can be out of luck as well. Unemployment rates are high for both,...
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States with the most long-term unemployed
[ ]()The numbers recording the long-term unemployed in the U.S. are among the most dire. These are job-seekers who have been out of work for more than 27 weeks, or more than six months. Many states,...
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States with the highest annual wages, and the most below the poverty line
[ ]()New census numbers in September reported a record number of people living below the poverty level. Some U.S. states, however, are able to maintain a decent annual wage. In our latest Marketplace...
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U.S. states with most part-time, full-time employees
In today's job market, more people are taking on part-time employment, whether it's temporary and a way to get by, or because hours have been reduced and a full-time position has been replaced by a...
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U.S. states with the most foreclosures
[ ]()The housing market continues to struggle across the country, with homeowners dealing with the effects of robosigning and banking problems, and foreclosures still numbering in the thousands. In...
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What Steve Jobs did for public radio
There's been a lot of talk about all the industries that Steve Jobs changed over the course of his long career. Well here's another: public radio. After all, if it weren't for Steve Jobs -- and the...
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Insights about Apple and Steve Jobs
People around the world have been paying tribute and gathering at Apple stores after the announcement of the death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs. Others turned to social media to commemorate the...
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Jill Schlesinger: Reason to smile today, but jobs crisis far from over
The September jobs report is out and it was better than last month, when I complained that President Obama blew it on jobs. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs last month...
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Reality TV show to follow medical marijuana dispensary
Medical marijuana brings in as much as $1.3 billion in sales in California. And it may soon generate revenue for the entertainment industry. Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Harborside Health...
View ArticleGet on the bus with Kai Ryssdal
The Breakdown: What's working in the job market from Marketplace on Vimeo. Last week Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and a small team rode the bus down Sunset Boulevard -- 26 miles from downtown to the...
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Jill Schlesinger: Retail therapy? Americans spend more but feel worse
My first boss once said to me: "Watch what they do and ignore what they say." He was referring to consumers, who despite telling pollsters that they feel rotten about the economy, spent more money...
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Europe Nears Crisis: Weekend at Bernie's Redux
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have moved the goal post, again. Although they previously promised that Sunday would produce a game plan for dealing with the...
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A day in the life at Marketplace
Ever wonder what it takes to put together a day's worth of programming at Marketplace? Check out this behind-the-scenes video that captures "A day in the life" at Marketplace. The video begins at...
View ArticleEuro crisis: A view from London to Los Angeles
The programme I present, Business Daily, is broadcast on the BBC's World Service and has a world agenda. But recently we've spent a lot of time reporting what is, in essence, a local story: the crisis...
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Working moms don't always have it easy
Checking the Marketplace's Daily Pulse, our offbeat take on the health of the U.S. economy. There's word today that just over half of working mothers in the U.S. get paid maternity leave from their...
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EU RIP? Europe deal fractures union
Twenty three members of the European Union have agreed to a fiscal compact, intended to create “genuine ‘fiscal stability union’ in the euro area” and will result in “significantly stronger...
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Shutdown averted, Congress weighs stimulus
It could have been a replay of the debt ceiling debacle all over again, but not even Congress is that crazy, right? Lawmakers reached agreement on a compromise $1 trillion spending bill to avert a...
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December ends 2011 employment story on good note
2011 ended on a high note for jobs. The December jobs report showed that 200,000 new jobs were created in the month, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5, the lowest rate since February 2009. For...
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Nobel Prize in Economics: A history of winners
It's best known as the Nobel Prize for Economics, but the official name of the award handed out today for the 44th time is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
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