Video: What’s at stake?
This year’s PBS Election special, What’s at Stake, presents viewers with an up-to-the-minute review of this year’s top campaign issues and considers how the outcome of the election could impact...
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Video: What’s at Stake: Jobs and taxes
From the beginning of the 2012 presidential campaign, probably no issues have received more attention than jobs and taxes. And perhaps no issues matter more to millions and millions of voters. From...
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Video: Need to Know: November 23, 2012: Employment’s new look
(View full post to see video) This week, Need to Know profiles two innovative jobs programs at opposite ends of the country. First, an update on a state program in Oregon that encourages workers who...
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Video: American Voices: George Wentworth
(View full post to see video) George Wentworth is a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project. I graduated from college in the 1970s during a recession not unlike the one we’ve...
View ArticleVideo: Manufacturing jobs in Alabama
(View full post to see video) The government says some 20 million Americans are still unemployed or under-employed— meaning they can’t get as much work as they’d like or need. Yet at the same time,...
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Need to Know: February 1, 2013: Manufacturing jobs
The nation’s unemployment rate has been hovering just below eight percent for months — that means about twelve million Americans are jobless and looking for work. Yet at the same time, firms...
View ArticleVideo: Interview: Peter Cappelli on the secret of employment
(View full post to see video) Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources and author of Why Good People...
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Need to Know: May 3, 2013: Retraining America
(View full post to see video) Even as unemployment remains stubbornly high, millions of jobs remain unfilled because many workers do not have the necessary training to fill them. This week, “Need to...
View ArticleVideo: Interview: Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris
(View full post to see video) Seth Harris was nominated to be the Deputy Secretary of Labor on February 23, 2009. Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Harris served as a Professor of Law at New York...
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Video: Certifiably employable
(View full post to see video) More than 4 and a half million Americans have been without work for more than six months. And recent research points to a vicious cycle: not having a job makes it harder...
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