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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Employment

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | Disabling Common Sense
America isn't Italy, but U.S. employment laws are creeping in that direction if the latest brainstorm from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is any clue. This week the agency may change its "guidance" on how companies treat disabled workers in a way that will hurt disabled workers.

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Political Calculations | Two Hypotheses for the "Current" Trend in New Jobless Claims
Those who follow our analysis on a regular basis already know that we consider the number of seasonally-adjusted initial unemployment insurance claims filed each week to be the most easy-to-accurately-predict number in all of economic datadom.