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Has anyone ever asked you to be their best man or maid of honor? Did you enjoy it? If so, there may be a job in your future…
1. CA: Positions Available @ Private Women’s Gym
Women’s Athletic Club is looking for [...]
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Has anyone ever asked you to be their best man or maid of honor? Did you enjoy it? If so, there may be a job in your future…
1. CA: Positions Available @ Private Women’s Gym
Women’s Athletic Club is looking for [...]
It’s now clear that the Thierry Henry assist on the William Gallas goal last night is going to generate more commentary and interest than tonight’s filling of the new EU jobs (Council President, High Rep. for Foreign Policy, and Secretary General of the Council), but nonetheless, we could be [...]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government's watchdog agency, has taken a look at the numbers and found 10 percent of the jobs claimed as "saved" or "created" by the so-called stimulus program didn't have any spending attached to them. In other words, the reported numbers are so' [...]
Please click on this link, courtesy of Mark Perry: "Unemployment, The Movie." Once you click play and watch the map [...]
The evidence of the strikingly poor data provided to the federal government on jobs "created" or "saved" from the stimulus continues to mount. Ohio Watchdog reports that according to recovery.org, the federal web site tracking stimulus dollars, ten new Congressional Districts spent $5.3 million and created 11 jobs. [...]
Some interesting reads:
• Recovery Can Only Go So Far Without Jobs (Market Talk)
• Paul Farrell: Wall Street’s 2012 meltdown sweepstakes (Marketwatch)
• Lessons from the crisis: Re-educate the geeks (Reuters) British quant seeks to reform financial risk-takers
The Montana Policy Institute decided to check out where the federal stimulus package was "creating" jobs in the state. Much to its surprise, the number of Congressional districts in Montana has expanded, from one to thirteen!
According to MPI's press release written by Michael Noyes and distributed on the web:
BOZEMAN - [...]
The central bank is failing at its primary task
BEN BERNANKE gave a talk yesterday to the Economic Club of New York. He discussed the American labour market:Since December 2007, the U.S. economy has lost, on net, about 8 million private-sector jobs, and the unemployment rate has risen from [...]
Job retraining without job creation is, um, pointless. The federal government is banking heavily on job retraining to help those who lost jobs in this recession, as are many states. But job retraining is taking a beating these days. As my colleague Brian Doherty summarized for Reason magazine:
The federal [...]
Some interesting stories to start off your week:
• China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy (Telegraph)
• Hedgies Unhinged (New York Magazine)
• Gold prices are a dead giveaway (Independent)
• The Debt Economy (James Surowiecki)
• Coming Soon: Jobs! (Slate)
Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:
Columnist Paul Krugman writes that policies to promote “job sharing” are “worthy of consideration” (”Free to Lose,” Nov. 13).
Let’s start at the New York Times. I know several economists currently without jobs (and certainly without regular newspaper columns). [...]
Michael Fletcher and Neil Irwin are an embarrassment to the Washington Post.
Think of that.
Let's turn the mike over to Tim Fernholz:
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: President Obama has announced his intention to hold a Jobs Summit at the White House, reacting to the high unemployment rate and [...]
We debated President Obama's jobs summit plans on last night's Kudlow Report. Joining me were Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago economics professor.
The Boston Globe has investigated the number of jobs supposedly "saved" or "created" in Massachusetts by $4 billion in stimulus money, and--surprise!--they found huge errors, omissions, and flat out wrong numbers. In some cases, such as rental subsidies, money that would have normally gone to agencies and landlords [...]
Next week I'm looking forward to speaking at two important innovation-related conferences. On Thursday I will be in Chicago at "Innovating Our Way to Prosperity" put on by The Institute for Work and the Economy. It's obviously a critical topic these days, given the weak state of the job' [...]
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This week’s jobs include a position for a hippy, a meat cutter, and an amateur astronaut. If none of those suit your fancy, you can be the person who provides a ladder for someone stuck in a well. No kidding:
1. Denver: [...]
Here's more bad news for jobs.
According to this morning's trade report, the advanced technology trade deficit widened to $18.2 billion in the third quarter, up from $12.9 billion in the second quarter of 2009 (advanced technology products include 10 categories, such as information and communications, biotechnology, and aerospace).
The [...]
President Obama announced today that a jobs summit will be held at the White House next month in order to recast legislative attention to a sector of the economy that has worsened:
“This is one of the great challenges that remains in our economy, a challenge that my administration is [...]
With health care and Afghanistan dominating the conversation in Washington, many Democrats have [...]
A very illuminating story on “jobs saved.” I think the estimates and methodology reported here are not the same as the “one million jobs saved or created” discussed here. But the real importance of this story isn’t the inconsistency or the ludicrousness of claiming that exactly 12,374 jobs have [...]
Krugman and DeLong have been attacking Mankiw and Meltzer for mocking the “jobs saved” metric of the Obama Administration. Here is Krugman:
Brad DeLong catches Allan Meltzer claiming that there’s something nonsensical about the Obama administration making estimates of jobs saved thanks to its policies. But it’s not just Meltzer [...]
