News
National Journal | How the Economy Still Stinks for the Unemployed, in One Chart
National Journal reported last winter on the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's new "spider chart" visualizing the labor market's progress. With the January jobs report just a few days away, let's check back in and see how things are moving.
CNN Money | Will Obama's pledge get the unemployed back to work?
President Obama rallied 300 companies and got them to agree they won't purposefully weed out job applications from the long-term unemployed.
Blogs
WSJ | Should Fed Worry That Smaller Share of Americans Are Working?
Why aren’t more people working? A new study put out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests a worrying drop in the share of Americans with a job is due mostly to demographic factors.
WSJ | How Would Raising Minimum Wage Affect Small Business?
With the minimum wage shaping up to be one of the hottest issues to watch in 2014, The Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta discusses the issue with a group of entrepreneurs and economic experts in this recent, live Q&A.
