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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
Washington Times | Government job cuts create a historically slow recession recovery

The biggest downsizing of state and local government in modern history has proved to be a big drag on the U.S. economy since 2009 and a primary reason the four-year-long recovery is more sluggish than other recoveries since World War II, economists say.

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Café Hayek | Seeking Answers from Minimum-Wage Proponents
Here are some questions for those who feel that an increase in the legislated minimum wage is likely to improve the economic lot of low-skilled workers – or at least likely enough to improve the economic lot of low-skilled workers to justify serious scholarly discussion of raising the minimum wage.