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Although the jobs report today showed the unemployment rate dropping from 9.8 to 9.4 percent, it's estimated that half of that drop is from people who have given up the job hunt altogether.

Mitchell Hartman reports.

It's a very good time for IPOs -- GM and Booz Allen Hamilton just went public, HCA and Toys"R"Us are expected to follow soon.

Many of the new IPOs come from companies that were taken private in deals with a lot of debt, and as Mitchell Hartman reports, they aren't being received well by investors.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman takes a look at whether start-ups can help add jobs to the economy, especially in the face of outsourcing.

It seems counterintuitive to pay the government for the privilege to lend to it, but investors did just that yesterday.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman explains what they were thinking.

The Obama Administration announced several proposals to stimulate the economy, including tax break extensions.

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman sees how tax breaks could influence business.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman about job creation and how long-term unemployment is redirecting many Americans' life choices.

The unemployment rate dropped, but don't take that as a good sign yet. Reporter Mitchell Hartman explains how to understand the latest unemployment figures.

The math on the May jobs numbers goes like this: 431,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. Subtract 411,000 -- they're temporary census workers.

And what you have is a dispiriting 41,000 net new places to work for the month of May. Reporter Mitchell Hartman takes apart the numbers with Kai Ryssdal.

Congress has been voting to keep unemployment benefits flowing with several extensions. But there is a limit for people who've been unemployed the longest.

In states with the worst unemployment figures, that limit is now 99 weeks. Mitchell Hartman reports.

The volcanic ash that's wreaking havoc in Europe is having an economic impact in the U.S. Companies are reporting inventory levels falling to dangerously low levels as supplies sit in European airports.

Mitchell Hartman reports.