Earlier in my post on US Unemployment Reaching a 26-Year High, I said this about the U-6:
Among all groups, the U6 underemployment rate -- a broader measure of the jobs shortfall which includes people whose hours have been cut, those working part-time for lack of full-time work, [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October 2009 unemployment report. The numbers were worse than expected.
The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest job [...]
A question I’m occasionally asked at public events is, why aren’t we creating jobs with a WPA-type program? It’s a very good question.
As it is, job-creation efforts are generally indirect. Tax cuts and transfers in the hope that people will spend them; aid to state governments in the hope [...]
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