The unemployment situation is still tough for many millions of Americans, but for those companies hiring software engineers, trouble cuts the other way.

A rare treat for listeners! Tess discusses the ins and outs of 2011 with all four of our regulars, Chris Farrell, Kathy Kristof, David Lazarus and Liz Weston.

Planned layoffs are up in 2011 over the previous year — and there's still a month to go.

U.S. employers added 192,000 workers in February and the unemployment rate declined to 8.9 percent — the lowest level since April 2009. The illu…

A new survey from the National Association for Business Economics shows signs of a strengthening economic recovery — with a number of firms indi…

So you know that one perfect, goody two-shoe who actually files their TPS reports correctly and won't even take a peek at Facebook even on their…

Marketplace Money is in Chicago this week to tape a special episode on jobs and unemployment. Host Tess Vigland and audio engineer Josh Rogosin h…