News
USA Today | College graduates enjoy best job market in years
The class of 2012 is leaving U.S. colleges with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Real Clear Markets | High Unemployment: Structural or Cyclical?
Unemployment is edging down, but the fraction of the unemployed who have been idle more than year remains near a record high. In the first three months of the year about 30% of the unemployed - more than 3.9 million people - had been jobless for a year or longer.
Blogs
Economist | Jobs for the long run
Unemployment is high, and the longer people are unemployed the longer they are likely to stay that way. Eventually, they may become discouraged and drop out of the labour force. So what can be done?
The American | How far away are states from a jobs recovery?
How far away are states from returning to their pre-Great Recession employment peaks? IHS Global Insight has produced two charts, one looking at the percentage of jobs below peak employment, with the other looking at when might various states get back to that old level
