Cuts by state and local governments have cost the economy about 1 million jobs over the past two years.
Category: jobs
Searching for a Silver Lining
Is there any good news in today’s jobs report?
Podcast: Creating Jobs, and Juggling Them
A look at the latest Weekend Business podcast, and a listen.
A Targeted Payroll-Tax Cut
Michael Greenstone, an M.I.T. economist, argues for a payroll-tax cut that benefits only those businesses that add employees.
Making Hiring Cheaper
In the past week, there has been some buzz about creating some similar tax incentives that would subsidize labor, such as allowing employers to forgo paying their share of payroll taxes for any net new hires.
Have German Wages Really Risen?
Not much in the last eight or nine years, but the German labor market has still outperformed the American labor market over this period. How? Jobs.
Hour by Hour, a Measure of Economic Stress
The decline in production workers’ hours makes clear the depth of the economic downturn.
Labor Demand Gets Softer
Job openings were down in April and the number of unemployed for every job opening rose, a Labor Department survey reports.
Podcast: Job Woes, Pet Boom and Annuity Puzzle
A look at the latest Weekend Business podcast, and a listen.
The Return of the Blue-Collar Downturn
For much of 2010, the slumping economy was affecting white-collar, highly educated workers almost as much as it was affecting less educated and blue-collar workers. That’s no longer the case.