Employers, right-wing politicians, and the pundits who speak for them have been claiming that the expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to counter covid woes was hurting job growth. B...
https://lbo-news.com/2021/10/09/cutting-ui-early-hurt-job-growth/
It’s become an article of faith lately that there’s little point in going to college—you just end up deep in debt and unemployed. That’s not really true, at least the unemployed part. The...
https://lbo-news.com/2013/06/27/new-college-grads-could-be-worse/
And now a special update on the September employment report, released Friday morning. The headline number was a loss of 95,000 jobs—though more than all of that was accounted for by the contin...
Summers • recession over! — except in housing and jobs • Zuckerberg & the charter scam Summers back to Harvard So Larry Summers is leaving as head of Obama’s National Economic Council. Ev...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/09/24/radio-commentary-september-23-2010/
In the economic news, more stumbling along the bottom. On Thursday morning, the Labor Department (not, by the way, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the main source of data in that agency, but in t...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/01/23/radio-commentary-january-21-2010/
I’m going to keep the opening comments pretty short today. Though some of you have already heard my analysis of the December employment report, the WBAI audience hasn’t. So a quick reprise of...
https://lbo-news.com/2010/01/23/radio-commentary-january-14-2010/
Mixed news on the economic front, as has been the case for weeks going on months. Which is better than what went before, meaning unmixed negatives, but is still a sign of how weak and tentative t...
https://lbo-news.com/2009/09/18/radio-commentary-september-17-2009/