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This is an interesting insight on job and income growth in our country. Note, too, that it is not all the fault of the current administration:
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees [...]
These 500 families are apparently still waiting for the effects of the Green Revolution:
A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.
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(Dr. Thomas Michael Power is the former Chair of the Economics Department at the [...]
The answer is that the stimulus bill effects are fully realized even though it has only spent about a third of the total amount allocated. Why is this if there is so much more left to dole out?
For lay people it can be described like this:
Think of GDP as the [...]
Here are some snips from a past economic analysis on unemployment:
The second way government assistance programs contribute to long-term unemployment is by providing an incentive, and the means, not to work. Each unemployed person has a “reservation wage”—the minimum wage he or she insists on getting before accepting a job. [...]
Although one month does not a trend make, today’s November jobs report was a blowout to the upside against expectations with job losses nearly flat at -11,000 and the unemployment rate at -.2% moving down to 10%. The other good data point is that hours worked increased .2 hours.
The BLS [...]
Tomorrow is Pres. Obama’s “jobs summit.” This is but another demonstration of community organizing where gathering “stakeholders” and change agents in a room is supposed to produce ideas. Of course this meeting will produce exactly zero meaningful new ideas for the creation of jobs. It will also fail to produce [...]
Thanksgiving is a worthy holiday, but preparations can be stressful for all concerned. Fortunately, applicable federal law itemizes the jobs respectively owed by men and women on this sacred day, thereby making clear who’s responsible for doing what.
(NB: Being a man, and writing from memory, I may have inadvertently omitted [...]
Why do I watch the Sunday A.M. taking heads? It must have something to do with searching for exquisite pain.
I just heard Barbara Boxer say that we need to, right now, spend money on high-speed rail to get job growth. She’s sitting with Leiberman, Durbin and Hutchenson. The problem with [...]
The Montana State University poll found that 37 percent approve of [...]
