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Friday, May 13, 2011

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
Fox News | How states fared on unemployment applications
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted 44,000 to 434,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was the biggest weekly drop since February 2010.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
WSJ | Boeing and the Union Berlin Wall
Between 2000 and 2008, 4.8 million Americans moved from forced union states to right-to-work states—that's one person every minute of every day.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
EconLog | Specialized Labor
For over two centuries, economists have spoken of "labor" as if it were homogeneous. Back in the real world, people were learning trades, becoming trained as professionals, starting businesses, and otherwise undertaking to differentiate themselves.