News
Market Watch | Judging impact of ‘piece-by-piece’ jobs plan
As President Barack Obama this week began a campaign to get a jobs bill passed in “bite-sized pieces,” economists have likewise taken a knife to their estimates of the benefits from slimmed-down legislation.
Econ Comments
WSJ | The Immigration Solution for Job Growth
Immigrants and their children founded almost half of Fortune 500 firms like Google and Intel.
AEI | The US Shouldn't Wait to Fix Immigration for Skilled Workers
...one quarter of American Nobel Prize winners since 1901 (the first year the prizes were awarded) have been immigrants. As recently as 2009, five of the eight American winners were immigrants.
Blogs
Political Calculations | Average Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates by State, 2005-2011
...a look at the average tax rates paid by employers to support the unemployment insurance benefits mandated by the states in which they operate!
