The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the unemployment numbers for May this morning. The numbers may give a sense of how quickly the U.S. can expect economic recovery. David Leonhardt of The New York Times joins The Takeaway with an analysis.
In his first quarterly accounting to President yesterday, Vice President Biden gave the Obama Administration an A+, saying immediate financial relief has gone out to Americans into job-creating projects. Is this a case of grade inflation?
The new employment numbers for the month of April are out: employers cut 539,000 jobs. While still a lot of job loss, that’s the smallest number seen in six months. To help us crunch the numbers we turn to Dan Gross, Columnist for Newsweek and Slate.
Unemployment numbers for April come out today. Dan Gross, Columnist for Newsweek and Slate, joins The Takeaway from East Lansing, Michigan, to help us make sense of the numbers.
Despite Wachovia’s announcement that is was laying off over 500 employees in Charlotte, North Carolina, Andrea Bernstein found the locals there surprisingly upbeat about the economy.
Today, we shrink down to take a look at life from the point of view of one of the world’s smallest biological toxins. How, really, do viruses get out of one organism and travel to another? (Warning: It’s pretty gross.)
