News
National Journal | Are 65 Percent of Employers Really Struggling to Find Workers?
According to these numbers, three-quarters of available jobs are not full-time, and more than half of the companies seeking workers can’t find candidates with sufficient skills. It's a chronic problem facing the American workforce during this period of recovery, especially among large populations of disengaged people, many of whom are minorities.
FOX Business | On the Job Hunt: Finding Career Satisfaction and Job Stability
Upcoming and recent grads may be sweating the job hunt and ready to sign on to any offer, but experts caution against making a rash decision that could impact their career and lifestyle.
Bloomberg | Immigrants With Right Skills Ride U.S. Hiring Wave: Economy
The labor market is healing faster for immigrants than for U.S.-born workers as the growing economy favors those at the low and high ends of the pay scale.
Blogs
Economist | Minimum human wages
In his State of the Union speech Barack Obama warmed Democratic hearts by calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, and indexation of the wage to inflation. Predictably, an op-ed battle immediately sprang up, with half of the commentariat arguing that a higher minimum wage would simply hurt low-skill workers seeking a job (and some adding that wage subsidies would be a far better option) and the other half arguing that higher wages at the bottom of the income spectrum are long overdue.
