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When good jobs are available, the queue goes around the block
One theme the Republicans love to spread at every opportunity is that unemployment insurance benefits enable layabouts not to hunt for work. Y'know, it's so cushy living off those government paychecks that average 38 percent of individuals' earnings from 5/30/12 from Daily Kos Read more »
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Gordon MacInnes: Increasing the Minimum Wage Will Help NJ's Economy
Increasing New Jersey's minimum wage would boost the state's ailing economy while improving the lives of many of the state's working families, as shown by a new analysis prepared by the Economic Policy Institute and released by New Jersey Policy Perspect from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Jobs: The number of baby boomers retiring is holding down the unemployment rate
President Obama can thank baby boomers at least in part for the drop in the U.S. unemployment rate with the first post-World War II generation hitting retirement age at a rate of 10,000 a day. President Obama can thank baby boomers at least in part for t from United Press International Read more »
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Broad STEM Grad Green Card Exemptions Would Distort Labor Market
Ron Hira is an associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology and a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He is co-author of Outsourcing America and in 2011 testified twice before Congress on high-skilled immig from U.S. News & World Report Read more »
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Eurozone's Possible 'Lehman Moment': What it Means for U.S.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And we pick up on Europe's economic crisis to look at the risks it poses here in the U.S., at a time when this country faces its own huge fiscal problem. How to bring down the United States' rising debt is a topic of growing debate as we h from PBS NewsHour Read more »
