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Category Archives: Employment
Made In China
For the next couple weeks I plan to highlight two secular trends that are restraining employment growth in the United States: globalization and technological innovation. There is considerable debate about the relative importance structural factors that are hampering the domestic … Read the rest of this entry
Small Business Economic Trends
On June 14th The National Federation of Independent Businesses (“NFIB”) released its monthly survey of Small Business Economic Trends and there were a few interesting insights that I wanted to share. The NFIB is a member organization that represents more … Read the rest of this entry
State & Local Employment
On June 3rd the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly Employment Situation report and the latest numbers are disappointing. During the month of May, the U.S. economy created just 54,000 jobs and the unemployment rate climbed to 9.1%. To … Read the rest of this entry
Structural Unemployment
The recession ended two years ago but the unemployment rate has remained persistently high, currently at 9.0%. There is a fair amount of debate among analysts and economists – even within the Federal Reserve – as to the relative importance … Read the rest of this entry