News
WSJ | OECD Calls for Action on Unemployment
In its annual employment outlook, the Paris-based think tank said that in July, 44.5 million workers were without jobs across its 34 developed-country members, 13.4 million more than immediately before the onset of the financial crisis.
Market Watch | U.S. jobless claims jump to highest since June
The number of applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, government data showed Thursday, providing more evidence of the difficulty jobless Americans face in finding work.
Econ Comments
Washington Times | KLECKNER: Obama deliberately kills jobs
What else can you say about a president who leaves 60,000 Americans jobless?
Politico | NLRB costing South Carolina jobs
The federal government’s attempt to shutter a new Boeing manufacturing plant in South Carolina will have a profoundly negative impact on thousands of hardworking Americans — and the state’s entire economy. Right now, South Carolina’s unemployment rate is 10.9 percent.
Washington Times | PYLE: Obama’s employment policy alter egos
President pushes doomed green jobs while blocking work in oil industry.
Blogs
Political Calculations | Gas Prices, the Unemployment Rate and Desperation
Going by the elevated motor gasoline prices that have come to characterize Barack Obama's years as U.S. President, it appears that the U.S. unemployment rate will skyrocket up to 11% early in 2013 if the correlation between gasoline prices and the unemployment rate two years later continues to hold.
WSJ | Billions in Unemployment Benefits Paid in Error
Nearly $19 billion in state unemployment benefits were paid in error during the three years that ended in June, new Labor Department data show.
