The safety-net programs in the federal stimulus that helped fight the recession came at a cost of weakening incentives to work or hire, an economist writes.
Moody’s economists add a splash of cold water to some of the numbers that have emerged in recent days.
A global market for online work lets good workers in bad places snatch business from better-performing environments, Quentin Hardy writes on Bits.
Mitt Romney said there were 23 million Americans struggling to find work. But some of the groups in the calculation may have been counted twice.
According to two economists with a new forecasting model, the jobless rate should stick pretty much where it is for months.
A source of volatility in the last couple of months — and one of the biggest contributors to the bump in employment in September — was the group between the ages of 20 and 24.