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Monday, November 10, 2014

Employment

News                                                                                                                             
Market Watch | Everything but higher wages
The employment situation report, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,tells the same story we have seen for much of 2014; the recovery has gathered steam, and job growth has accelerated, but not nearly fast enough to produce wage growth for most Americans.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Wall Street Journal | Clear Evidence on Disincentives to Work
People in government like to take credit for the drop in the unemployment rate this year. But one reason the rate dropped is because the government didn’t extend unemployment benefits.