High school grad can't get film editing career rolling

Edgar Andres caught the movie bug when he was 16 years old, after a filmmaker came to his high school to talk about the craft. Soon after,...

Podcast: UCLA economists on the unemployment problem

Edward Leamer, director of the Anderson Forecast, and other UCLA economists discuss what it will take to start reducing the high...

Opinion: Where the L.A. jobs are (or should be)

A county that's home to 1.56 million poor people should probably do something about poverty, don't you think?

Healthcare sector loses steam in California

Healthcare has long been one of the most reliable generators of new jobs in California. But a lousy economy has caught up with an industry...

Automation is increasingly reducing U.S. workforces

The ground trembles on Mike Young's almond farm as the forklift-size yellow machine grabs a tree trunk and shakes it hard. Nuts rain like...

U.S. hard-pressed to stem domestic R&D losses

President Obama's proposal to boost the research tax credit for businesses is widely seen as necessary to bolster American competitiveness...

Unemployment lasts longer for Asian Americans

Asian Americans typically have the lowest unemployment rate of any ethnic group in the United States. But in this weak labor market, once...

Millions can find only part-time or lower-paying jobs

Beyond the 15 million Americans who have no jobs at all, millions more are caught in part-time or limited jobs that don't pay them enough to...

For many unemployed workers, jobs aren't coming back

The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from the Great Recession. Millions of American workers will not.