News
CNN Money | 5 bright spots in a dim jobs picture
Dig deep into the latest employment numbers, and you can find a few sectors that shine.
Market Watch | Requests for jobless benefits fall to 405,000
New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in three months, suggesting fewer layoffs in early July than usual, according to government data.
Econ Comments
Washington Times | BURR: NLRB backs Boeing assault with new attack
Even as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is pilloried by the editorial pages of mainstream newspapers from coast to coast for its ridiculous efforts to tell Boeing how - and where - to create jobs, the captured agency is already warning of its next target: the 6 million businesses, large and small, within the board’s grasp.
Blogs
Political Calculations | Disappearing Teen Jobs and the Minimum Wage, Part 3
Today we're going to show you that increases in the minimum wage are indeed very well correlated with the reduction in the employment to population ratio for teens.
