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Another housing crisis is coming – and bailouts and eviction freezes...

Roshanak Mehdipanah, University of Michigan and Gregory Sallabank, University of Michigan Millions of Americans are suddenly out of work as the financial and economic crisis...

For male students, technical education in high school boosts earnings after...

Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University Job prospects for young men who only have a high school diploma are particularly bleak. They are even worse for...

US poverty statistics ignore millions of struggling Americans

Sophie Mitra, Fordham University and Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire Who counts as poor in the U.S. today? Measuring the share of the population that...

May jobs report suggests a slowing economy – and possibly an...

Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University The latest jobs data suggests an interest rate cut may be imminent. The Labor Department reported on June 7 that U.S. nonfarm...

Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’

Susan R. Crandall, University of Massachusetts Boston Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills. There is no place in...

Amazon and other ‘superstar’ companies could give all American workers a...

Carolin Schellhorn, St. Joseph's University The latest employment data, released on Oct. 5, point to a persistent economic puzzle: The unemployment rate is the lowest...

Why the unemployment rate will never get to zero percent –...

Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University The U.S. Labor Department continues to release wonderful news for U.S. workers. Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said...

What is full employment? An economist explains the latest jobs data

Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University The latest jobs report has gotten a lot of analysts, policymakers and talking heads once again asking whether...

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