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Friday, December 14, 2012

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
CNN Money | How to get to 6.5% unemployment
The Federal Reserve predicts it will keep stimulative policies in place until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5%. But just how many jobs will it take to get there?

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Market Watch | Right-to-work comes just in time for Michigan
Democrats tend to be pro-choice on abortion, but they don’t want to give workers any choice about union membership.
NBER | The U.S. Employment-Population Reversal in the 2000s: Facts and Explanations
The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment.
Politico | The way forward for American unions
It’s almost too easy. “Big Labor” or “the unions” are now political epithets for conservatives, and a dismissive shorthand among the political class for an moribund movement whose death has seemed destined for decades.