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- Unemployment Rate Cushioned By Government Hiring
- In July in some of the first good news the U.S. economy had seen in several months the unemployment rate actually declined slightly. It was down to 9.4 percent from about 9.6 percent. Many economists still predict it going higher as economic activity in the U.S. stagnates or...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
- Employment: Less Bad is Good
- The April employment report showed that the rate of job loss is tapering off. That's why investors celebrated the fact that "only" over a half million people lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate was just 8.9 percent. It's like the doctor coming in and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- The Coming Jobless Recovery
- Now we are getting the clearest indication yet that we are headed for a jobless recovery. A total of 467,000 jobs were eliminated in June, bringing the jobless rate to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May, according to the Labor Department. The jobless rate was the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Follow-Up on Employment: Conflicting Signals
- U.S. unemployment: are we at the end, or the end of the beginning, or what? Different sources give different answers, or rather, accommodate different interpretations. I think we still have a long way to go. This post comments further on ideas I considered yesterday in "In The Long Run, We're...
- Blog posts 2009-12-05
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