News
WSJ | Global Employment Prospects Improving
The global employment outlook is improving, with firms well placed to swiftly adapt their plans to the current fluid economic backdrop, a quarterly survey by ManpowerGroup showed Tuesday.
USA Today | Largest companies are spending, adding jobs
Collectively the nation's biggest companies, including Caterpillar, Jabil Circuit and Qualcomm, added 4.2% more net jobs globally in 2011, based on S&P Capital IQ's analysis of the 437 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that reported employee statistics.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | How to Keep More Kids on the Streets
Raising the minimum wage hurts the very people—low-skilled workers—that champions of the raise intend to help, because it prices many such workers out of jobs.
Forbes | The House GOP Authors a Jobs Recovery
Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and their fellow House Republicans should claim credit for this jobs recovery. It never would have happened had they not stopped the counter-productive fiscal policies of the Obama Administration
Blogs
The American | Why the disconnect between jobs and growth?
JPMorgan economist Jim Glassman asks, “How can we reconcile soft GDP figures with solid, actually impressive, job figures?”
