a confluence of articles out today are worth collating and reading in sum. all, as you may have guessed from today's title, are about jobs. or employment. or 'how are we going to get people working again?' robert samuelson argues, yet again, that we're in a particularly stubborn situation... View full entry
it's pretty rare that a single chart can show so much about the current state of the industry, but this one, from Macro Monitor, does a great job. the upshot? 2.27M construction payroll jobs lost between '06 and '11. only 60k net new jobs since feb. 2011. only... View full entry
so, just to muddy the waters of the study put out by georgetown university yesterday, this evening the wall street journal's reports on the Department of Labor's annual average unemployment figures, released today as part of the overall jobs report (positive news on the whole. still... View full entry
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