My column on today’s jobs number is up at Outside the Box – MarketWatch: Today’s new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show a labor market continuing along a path to recovery. The BLS reports that the U.S. economy added 195,000 new jobs in June and the unemployment rate stayed at 7.6%. What’s […]
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Tomorrow is the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new data on how many Americans are on the job, searching for a job, or have given up. As usual, the business press is anxious about what the data will say. This month, they want to know whether there will be more indications that […]
A new working paper by economists Henry S. Farber and Robert G. Valletta finds that during a recession, extra weeks of unemployment benefits don’t keep people from finding jobs, they keep them afloat while they search for a job. In the paper, Farber and Valletta exploit the variation in the timing and size of extensions to […]
Today CAP released a big, bold report, 300 Million Engines of Growth, edited by Jennifer Erickson and Michael Ettlinger. Jim Tankersley writes about it in today’s Washington Post: The core of the plan is the notion that economies grow and thrive best when prosperity is broadly shared — a rebuke of the income and wealth […]
In Why Can’t America Be Sweden?, Thomas Edsall points to a growing debate in economics: If some countries can have strong growth while also having strong supports for workers and their families, why can’t all countries grow that way? In the post, he focuses on a working paper by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors, James A. […]
Heather Boushey 