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AEI | Recent Senate deal on unemployment benefits shows that bipartisanship isn’t always good
The deal combines two big policy mistakes that I have criticized before: a corporate welfare provision that lets employers underfund their workers’ pensions and a (largely retroactive) extension of unemployment benefits that does nothing to cure the long-term unemployment crisis.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Fortune | What's behind the collapse in teen employment?
Data from the Brookings Institution shows that teen employment declined 42% from 2000-2011. What is it with kids these days?
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WSJ | Nevada Takes Lead in Job Creation
The annual pace of job growth in the Silver State was the fastest in the U.S. in January, rising 3.4% from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department’s report on regional and state employment released Monday.
