PBS NewsHour

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Mass Collection of Communication Data Speeds Inquiries, Prompts Privacy Debate
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News Wrap: Economy Added 175,000 Jobs in May, but Unemployment Grew
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Will You Work Forever?
Watch Video Next week, PBS NewsHour will launch an interactive project on the so-called "death of retirement." So many of us will continue to work well past the traditional retirement age either because we want to or we need to. Throughout...
To Lower Dropout Rates, Finding Potential Where Support Systems Are Lacking
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: Now: how one teacher-led program is making sure students at risk of dropping out of high school are not only getting their diploma, but going on to graduate from college as well.Ash-har Quraishi of...
U-7 Up; Black Youth Unemployment Hits 42 Percent
By Paul Solman Our U-7 index includes everyone in the government's U-3: everyone who said they wanted a job and had looked for one in the past four weeks. It also adds everyone who said they wanted one, hadn't looked in the past four...
Over 20 Percent Youth Joblessness and Still No Apprenticeships?
By Paul Solman Photo courtesy of Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman: Robert Lerman is a centrist economist whose first NewsHour appearance in 2011 generated real wrath. Many viewers and the organization Fairness & Accuracy In...