While I am concerned about Scott Walker being one Republican who can actually win the lunatic Republican primary and win the general election, he's going to have to run against the fact that his state's economy has collapsed under his leadership. More evidence of that:...
unemployment
No wonder the Fed is talking about reducing stimulus policies. The poor are rolling in the dough! This morning’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the economy.
Reuters has an interesting piece on how Volkswagen's previous attempt to operate a union factory in the U.S. failed and how this relates to its attempts to institute a German-like.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the WonkBlog is promoting conservative economists that want to allow employers to pay less than the minimum wage. [SL] I suppose considering Obama's actual proposals for combating unemployment would be too much to ask, and I don't find...
The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting.
I agree with Dean Baker that the 7.7% unemployment rate is likely a blip that will rise right back up with the cascading impact of the sequester and continued decline.
A reader suggested I take a look at Hamilton Nolan's ongoing Gawker series of unemployment stories. They make for harrowing reading, and a lot of them are from attorneys. Here's one from somebody still in free fall from a spot near the top of the...
Dana Goldstein's latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who.
Romney has critiqued Obama for being '"a “job killer” who is “in over his head”'; and one quote (which I can not source at the moment) has him claiming.
I've long thought that Democrats could open make a lot of political hay by centering veterans' benefits in their programs and rhetoric. During the Bush administration, I was consistently outraged by cuts to the Veterans' Administration at the same time that we were fighting ridiculous...