December 31, 2009
Year in Review: Reporting on the Growing Ranks of the Unemployed
PBS NewsHour's Paul Solman revisits the topic of reentry during his year in review and discusses his visit to Safer Foundation earlier in the year.
It's been an odd year for anyone who, like your correspondent, makes a living in and around economics. Odd because, for me at least, there's a version of survivor guilt: The worse the world has gotten, the more interest there's been in what I have to say. I said to a finance professor friend not long ago, somewhat sheepishly: "We're counter-cyclical." (i.e., When the economy goes down, we go up.) Waiting at a job fair
"Yes," he beamed; "or you could say, we've got a negative beta" (like a stock that rises even more than the market sags).
On the one hand, being Economics Correspondent for the NewsHour this year has been remarkably invigorating. Producer Lee Koromvokis and I have been able to produce far more than ever before, due to the addition of our associate Diane Lincoln and support from the Sloan Foundation (not a plug; just an explanation). And obviously, there's been more demand for stories from our beat.
It's been an odd year for anyone who, like your correspondent, makes a living in and around economics. Odd because, for me at least, there's a version of survivor guilt: The worse the world has gotten, the more interest there's been in what I have to say. I said to a finance professor friend not long ago, somewhat sheepishly: "We're counter-cyclical." (i.e., When the economy goes down, we go up.) Waiting at a job fair
"Yes," he beamed; "or you could say, we've got a negative beta" (like a stock that rises even more than the market sags).
On the one hand, being Economics Correspondent for the NewsHour this year has been remarkably invigorating. Producer Lee Koromvokis and I have been able to produce far more than ever before, due to the addition of our associate Diane Lincoln and support from the Sloan Foundation (not a plug; just an explanation). And obviously, there's been more demand for stories from our beat.
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