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Rick Santorum says stay in school, work hard, wait to have kids, and you’ll...
A couple holding hands / Geograph Britain and Ireland Last night’s convention speeches weren’t especially wonky, but one paragraph from Rick Santorum’s speech stuck out: Graduate from high school, work...
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Six rounds of interviews for one job? It’s the aggregate demand, stupid
Catherine Rampell has a good piece in Thursday’s New York Times, documenting how employers are dragging their feet on filling open positions. She dubs this “hiring paralysis,” and shows how it...
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It’s a bad time to be a worker who isn’t flexible. But does that explain the...
We’re approaching the four year anniversary of the economic recovery, and it still doesn’t feel like much of one, what with the unemployment rate at 7.7 percent and wages stagnant over the last half a...
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Who will get the spoils of an improving economy: Shareholders or workers?
There are two big forces at work that will together determine the future of the stock market, corporate profits and workers’ pay. And as Corporate America starts to report how it did at the start of...
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The jobs report was pretty solid. So why aren’t wages rising?
The nice thing about the latest jobs number is how very normal they seem. The nation added 175,000 jobs in May, which is right on track with the trend over the past year (average monthly jobs gained:...
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Arsenal doesn’t want to pay more for top talent. Just like Corporate America.
Wages for top soccer stars are rising. Will the Arsenal keep up? Here’s what that has to do with the U.S. job market. (Bryn Lennon – Getty Images) A torturous summer for the oft-tormented fans of...
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Why America’s men aren’t working
The Empire State Building stands past the silhouette of a construction worker before the start of a topping-out ceremony at 10 Hudson Yards in New York on Oct. 7, 2015. (John Taggart/Bloomberg News)...
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