Across the country, long-term unemployment insurance is drying up. Some 200,000 unemployed Americans lost access to government benefits earlier this month, most in California. All…
Most of the unemployed no longer receive aid
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The Associated Press
Updated Nov 5, 2011 11:16PM
Washington • The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer …
It’s widely acknowledged that OWS is asking good, tough questions. But even among supporters, the chief criticism has been the movement’s lack of focus. Yes, health insurance is too expensive and unemployment is too high. Sure, it would be nice if t…
Analysis: Stagnant U.S. jobs market bodes ill for world conomy
On Thursday September 29, 2011, 9:57 am
By Alan Wheatley, Global conomics Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) – Record-high long-term unemployment is testing politicians and central bankers to…
The Profession and the Crisis
Paul Krugman
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013, USA
So we’re having an economic crisis. I say “having,” not “had,” because we have by no means recovered. Financial panic may h…
The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe’s single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wron…
Last year, 3.9 million Americans ran out of unemployment insurance benefits, according to a new analysis provided to HuffPost by the National Employment Law Project.
Those 3.9 million are not necessarily still unemployed, and not all of them are…
Jobless Americans wary of losing their edge
Her fight to stay on top of her game is central to a key economic debate in the United States. At what point do people who have been unemployed for several months become unemployable? And how can they stop…
The number of long-term jobless Americans continues to grow…and grow…and grow some more….
Nearly 6 million Americans looked for work but weren’t able to find employment at all last year, a new report shows.
The Labor Department’s report on…