News
WSJ | U.S. Firms Keen to Add Foreign Jobs
U.S.-based multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and the Pacific region during the 2000s, and 477,500 workers in Latin America, while cutting payrolls at home by 864,000, the Commerce Department reported.
Econ Comments
RCM | Housing and Unemployment: The More Realistic Story
According to the USA Today account of Census Bureau statistics, only 11.6% of Americans changed their addresses from 2010 to 2011, "the lowest rate since the Census Bureau began collecting the statistics in 1948."
Forbes | Americans Need More Work And Less College
If the United States is really serious about competing with the work-centered countries of Asia, the key lies not in more government programs, but in restoring America’s own work-centered culture.
Blogs
Calculated Risk | State Unemployment Rates "little changed or slightly lower" in October
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate decreases, five states posted rate increases, and nine states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
