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US / More Nonwhites Than Whites Say Jobs the Top Issue finds Gallup
One in four Americans name the economy as the most important problem facing the country today, followed by unemployment and jobs at 19%, and dissatisfaction with government at 17% Continue reading
Minimum Wages Around The World
Out of the 20 or so countries listed on The Economist’s Big Mac Index (countries that also have minimum wages – Italy and Germany do not, for example) from 2012, the U.S. has the 7th highest minimum wage on an absolute basis, about the median number Continue reading
Illinois / The second-highest unemployment rate in US
Illinois has the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation, a rank the state has held for five months now, behind only the state of Nevada. Continue reading
US / Why Jobs Go Unfilled In Spite of High Unemployment
The U.S. has an unemployment rate over 7 percent, yet as we’ve been traveling around the country, we constantly hear from employers that they can’t fill positions, particularly those that require higher skills. How is that possible? Continue reading
US / Cloud computing projected to add 671,300 jobs by 2020
Cloud computing jobs are multiplying, new data shows, prompting debate over whether the new positions are taking the place of other work or becoming a net positive to employment in general Continue reading
Tempering the mobility-dampening effects of safety net policies with lump-sum unemployment payments
There is no reason to believe that the culture of the low-skilled native-born population is an insuperable obstacle to geographical mobility Continue reading
US / Two-thirds of American Workers Would Still Work Even if They Won Millions
Two-thirds of American workers say they would continue working even if they won $10 million in the lottery, while 31% say they would stop Continue reading
US / Retirement damaged by unemployment – A survey
The Damaged Nest Egg: Un/Underemployment Results in Withdrawals from Retirement Funds -A sizeable majority of the un/underemployed (62 percent) are not too/not at all confident that they will be able to retire comfortably Continue reading
US / Ending The Crisis With Guaranteed Employment And Retraining
Guaranteeing employment accompanied by retraining to enable all unemployed workers to become absorbed into the regular work force is a superiority strategy that it would institutionalize a procedure for insuring that workers would possess the necessary skills for available jobs Continue reading
US / The Low-Wage Job Machine
In the wake of the July employment report released last week, an interesting graphic appeared in a Wall Street Journal article with the somewhat distressing title “Low Pay Clouds Job Growth.” Comments Continue reading
2000, The great reversal in the demand for skill
What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? In about the year 2000, the demand for skill underwent a reversal. Continue reading
US / List of Unemployment Extension Programs for Each State
This article provides a list of state unemployment extension program information. Please keep in mind that benefits vary from state to state Continue reading
US / NSA to to eliminate about 90 pc of its system administrators
The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, the U.S. spy agency charged with monitoring foreign … Continue reading
US / AEI Economic Outlook: the current expansion is getting close to its end
By the long-run standard the current expansion, at 49 months (54 months by year-end, when growth is widely forecast to be 3 percent), is getting close to its end Continue reading
US / Layoffs falls to pre-recession level but jobless claims edges 5,000 higher
US – it appears that a long cycle of aggressive layoffs, which had fuelled a surge in unemployment and helped shape two presidential elections, is over but last week, initial jobless claims edged 5,000 higher Continue reading
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