News
Roll Call | Senate GOP Unveils Jobs Bill Retread
Senate Republicans irritated by attacks from President Barack Obama and Democrats that they don’t have a jobs plan of their own unveiled one today and called for a “conversation” with the president.
Econ Comments
e21 | "Supporting" 400,000 Education Jobs: An Unsupported Claim
The terminology of “supporting” nearly 400,000 jobs, as it turns out, is even more problematic. It, too, reflects an assumption rather than a metric that can be objectively tested and verified.
Bloomberg | What Do You Call a Jobs Bill That Begets No Jobs?: Caroline Baum
Obama has vowed to continue pushing his jobs package, with its temporary tax cuts and hiring incentives for small business, extended unemployment benefits and money for public works projects.
Blogs
Fox Business | Thousands of Workers Needed!
According to the Labor Department - there were nearly a quarter of a million open jobs in manufacturing in August - up nearly 39% from a year ago!
Marginal Revolution | Aggregate job creation and destruction (quarterly), or is creative destruction slowing down?
Is the U.S. labor market becoming less dynamic?
Daily Capitalist | Jobless Claims Disappoint—Again
Yes, we have a lot of work to do on the labor front, and that is mainly to allow the deleveraging process to continue unimpeded and encourage the formation of real capital.
