…[T]he percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010. During that three-year period, the number of people with master’s degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.’s who received assistance rose from…
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Walker Dislikes Job Numbers, So He’ll Put Out His Own – Bloomberg
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When Wisconsin job numbers compiled by the U.S. government were on the upswing last year, Governor Scott Walker traveled to Milwaukee to tout them as proof that he was turning around the state’s economy. Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures have shown for months that the state is losing more jobs than any…
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Putting Our Slow Jobs Recovery Into Perspective – Businessweek
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Disappointing, but not shocking. The government’s report Friday that the economy created fewer jobs than expected in April—115,000—showed an unwelcome deceleration of America’s job-creating machine. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News had a median forecast of 160,000 jobs created. In the big picture, though, the nearly 3-year-old expansion is proceeding at the same pace as the…
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Peak Housing, Peak Fraud, Peak Suburbia and Peak Property Taxes
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Peak Housing reflects not just a credit bubble but Peak Fraud and Peak Suburbia.
Once again pundits are claiming that housing is “finally recovering.” But they’re overlooking three peaks: Peak Housing, Peak Financial Fraud, and Peak Suburbia, all…
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Forget inflation: Is deflation the real threat?
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Forget inflation: Is deflation the real threat?
By John Waggoner, USA TODAY
Updated 17h 35m ago Comments
But a growing number of economists and money managers are starting to worry about the opposite of inflation: deflation, a period of falling price…
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“None of the business owners complained about regulation
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
October 4, 2011, 6:00 am
Misrepresentations, Regulations and Jobs
By BRUCE BARTLETT
Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul.
Repub…
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It Makes You Wonder
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In “Burger Flippers, Babysitting Grandmas Show Recession Lives On,” Bloomberg details where things stand for the average American.
Americans flipped more burgers, rented more homes, used less-expensive heating fuel and asked for more government hel…
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The Unfixable Jobs Crisis
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Another month, another sign that the job market remains unchangingly, distressingly stuck. The official unemployment rate according to just-released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is at 9.1%, but that fails to capture the weakness of t…
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Empire State Survey indicates contraction, Inflation rate lower
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Misc: Empire State Survey indicates contraction, Inflation rate lower, French Bank Rating Reviewed
by CalculatedRisk on 6/15/2011 08:30:00 AM
• From the NY Fed: Empire State Manufacturing Survey
The Empire State Manufact…
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Unemployment and the Market: A 62-Year Perspective
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June 3, 2011 monthly update
A disappointing increase of only 54,000 jobs was accompanied by an unemployment rate for May of 9.1%, up from the previous month’s 9.0%. The briefing.com consensus was for 9.0% and their own estimate was for 9.1%. The…