Survey: Americans felt more secure in jobs in 2012
Confidence in the U.S. job market has rebounded to roughly a normal level from its record low after the Great Recession, a trend that could help boost the economy. Full story
How to Stop Making Excuses and Run With Your Business Idea
There will never be a "perfect" time to start your business, so why not start now? Full story
The untold story of the Great Recession
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy talks about the untold story of the Great Recession: how cash-strapped state and local governments are dealing with the aftermath of the financial crisis, and how they could be affected by the outcome of so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.
Caught in the middle of the jobs crisis
Director Marc Levin shares a preview of the HBO documentary “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island,” which chronicles the human causalities of the Great Recession.
Report: Recession hurt American families’ wealth
A detailed Federal Reserve study reveals that the recession wiped out nearly two decades of American families’ wealth – with net worth plunging 39 percent over three years. Gene Sperling of the National Economic Council discusses.
The Town That Jobs Forgot
Welcome to Millen, a town in Georgia whose residents fight to overcome the effects of the Great Recession in their own ways. Dateline NBC's Lester Holt reports.
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New graduates leave ceremony
Alumni of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign school of business emerge from a tunnel of the State Farm Center after participating in commencement ceremonies on May 11, 2013. The Great Recession greatly affected many of the decisions made by the graduating class of 2013, which came of age
In this April 4, 2012 photo, college students attend a job fair for students in Manchester, N.H. The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession didn’t have: jobs. To the relief of many students _ and their anxious parents _ the prospect
