Working Life

    Readers of this blog know that I have been pointing out for a long time that the majority of Americans have been in recession for a long time–it was partly masked by the housing bubble, which allowed a lot of people to pull out a whole bunch of cash from almost under the mattress […]

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    This just out via the Associated Press: The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, providing more evidence that the weak economy is having an adverse impact on the labor market. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless […]

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    This just out via the Associated Press: The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, providing more evidence that the weak economy is having an adverse impact on the labor market. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless […]

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    Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]

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    Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]

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