News
NY Times | With States Desperate to Keep Jobs, Companies Have Upper Hand, Report Shows
As the unemployment crisis grinds on, states are trying to both lure and retain businesses by offering tax breaks, grants, cheap loans — just about anything (short of candy and foot massages) they can think of.
Blogs
Calculated Risk | BLS: Job Openings "essentially unchanged" in October
Jobs openings declined slightly in October, but the number of job openings (yellow) has generally been trending up, and are up about 13% year-over-year compared to October 2010.
NY Times: Economix | Small Businesses Plan to Increase Hiring
...the net percentage of companies that say they have already increased their employment in the last three months — that is, the percent saying they increased their staff minus the percent saying they decreased it — was positive for the first time in nearly four years.
Fox Business: John Stossel's Take | Job Creators Fight Back
Politicians say they want to help America create jobs. If they really want to help, they would get out of the way and let the real job creators create jobs.
Reports
NBER | The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition
In general, however, even the local effects of immigration bear very little correlation with the observed changes in poverty rates and they explain a negligible fraction of them.
