News
Fox News |
Auto industry, seeing new life, is on hiring spree.
Two years after the end of the Great Recession, the auto industry is hiring again — and much faster than the rest of the economy. As an employer, it's growing faster than airplane manufacturers, shipbuilders, health care providers and the federal government.
RCM | How to Create Jobs Without Spending a Dime
Most Americans know the biggest problem in America today: too few jobs. Yet, by executive action alone, President Obama could create more jobs without spending another dime, generating billions of additional dollars in income tax revenues for Treasury coffers.
Econ Comments
WSJ | Jobs in the Pipeline
With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on oil from dictatorships.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Obama Touts Federal Worker Pay Freeze That Isn’t
President Obama offered few concrete proposals for promoting fiscal responsibility during his “Twitter town hall” on Wednesday. One that he did mention was his drive to freeze federal employee salaries, though he offered the measure as an example of an effort to “make these adjustments that are necessary during these difficult fiscal times…in a way that preserves collective bargaining rights.”
Atlantic: Megan McArdle | Illegal Immgrants Might Be Undocumented, But They're Not Unskilled
To my mind, it's a good thing that we no longer have much skilled farm labor in our citizenry: Americans don't have these skills because they have better alternatives. They don't migrate with the crops because they have better options that let them stay put.
Calculated Risk | Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 418,000
This is the 13th straight week with initial claims above 400,000, and the 4-week average is at about the same the level as in January.
Reports
NBER | Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement
Given the magnitude of the recent recession, and the high-stakes testing the U.S. has implemented under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), it is important to understand the effects of large-scale job losses on student achievement.
