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The jobs report for February is out and the news is decent. 236,000 net new non-farm jobs and the unemployment rate is down to 7.7%. While...

As we all know, President O has called for raising the Federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This has caused many of my friends to get fair...

Over at Slate, Matt asks if the "manufacturing rebound" actually happening. He shows a graph of manufacturing employment, reprodu...

In January the economy added a net of 157,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up from 7.8 to 7.9 percent. Just another blah report...

In which I try to get happy about the increased employment in the 16-24 age group. I tried, I really did. It was on The Takeaway .

Is one cause of stubbornly high unemployment... the new health care law? I say yes, in this interview .

I had wondered about the employment rate, since it is a better picture of discouraged workers and population changes. And then I got this in...

Really, they did. Check the NYT story. Money quote: "The cold fact is that the longer you are out of a job, the more difficult it is ...

A letter to the Editor, shared by KPC friend Douglas Coate : The roots of Rand Paul's opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act as applie...

This story is hilarious satire , until it turns out not to be satire at all. The NYTimes Story Hold out for a "corporate job", ins...

A somewhat dated, but quite interesting, piece on unemployment benefits by KPC friend George Leef. It was published in Regulation, in 1998 ...

I was on "The Takeaway" this morning. National NPR program. You can listen by clicking "listen" here . They asked me t...