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Unemployment
Fed Chair Signals Possible Policy Shift on Unemployment
Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed chair Janet Yellen's recent comments on bringing unemployment down could be positive but Fed policy still remains toothless in helping out working Americans.
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Inflation Hawks: The Job Killers at the Fed
Many in the financial industry couldn't care less about unemployment. They don't want to risk any inflation that could erode the value of their wealth.
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Young Latin Americans Face Spiral of Unemployment, Poverty
In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next.
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Hamster-Wheel Economics 101
Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.
Obesity Higher Among Long-Term Unemployed
In a society driven by an ideology of selfishness and short-sightedness, many at the top find it easy to rationalize business and social policies that increase the ranks of …
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San Francisco’s Youth and LGBTQ Homeless Left with No Answer
What do we teach our youth when we make no effective effort to see that homeless youth are housed?
The Big Money Behind California’s Tenure Lawsuit
A bevy of venture capitalists, charter investors and Obama administration officials invested in the education reform agenda materialize as part of the swirling, multimillion-dollar brew of the Vergara lawsuit..
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Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor
When the overall unemployment rate goes up, the rate for the less-educated and minorities rises even more.
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Economy Adds 217,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Stable at 6.3 Percent
The index of hours worked past its pre-recession peak for the first time in May.
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Paul Krugman | The Unlucky Unemployed
The association between worker quality and unemployment should be much stronger in a good economy than in a bad economy.