A look at how many jobs the economy needs to add before returning to prerecession employment levels.
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A look at how many jobs the economy needs to add before returning to prerecession employment levels.
Cuts by state and local governments have cost the economy about 1 million jobs over the past two years.
Is there any good news in today’s jobs report?
A look at the latest Weekend Business podcast, and a listen.
Michael Greenstone, an M.I.T. economist, argues for a payroll-tax cut that benefits only those businesses that add employees.
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.