News
CNN Money | Millions to lose unemployment benefits if Congress doesn't act
Millions of unemployed Americans are waiting for Congress to do something other than trade barbs over their job creation plans.
Washington Times | Michigan was tech jobs leader in 2010
D.C., W.Va., Utah, S.C., round out top five, TechAmerica study shows.
CNN Money | Jobs Council: More investment needed for jobs
President Obama's jobs council on Tuesday released a list of proposals to spur job growth, putting investment in roads and bridges and tax breaks to encourage start-ups and company growth at the top of the list.
WSJ | Wall Street Shrinkage
New York Comptroller Sees 10,000 More Securities Jobs Lost by End 2012.
Econ Comments
WSJ | Stimulus Lite
The Senate jobs bill is a parody of a growth plan.
Reason | Creation Myth
Governments are worse than no good at “creating jobs.”
WSJ | Green Jobs Brown Out
How to spend $157,000 per job.
Blogs
John Stossel's Take | More Imaginary Green Jobs
The Labor department said 79,854 people would get jobs (where do they get these numbers?), but oops, only 8,035 people found employment…
Political Calculations | The Best Month for Jobs in 2011
...for the first time since the last recession officially ended in June 2009, the number of employed Americans rose above the 140 million mark, to 140,025,000.
WSJ: Real Time Economics | Number of the Week: Falling Wages for Young College Grads
9.6%: Decline from 2000 to 2010 in inflation-adjusted median earnings of people 25 to 34 years old with a bachelor’s degree and no graduate degree.
