Making excuses for unemployment: The myth of a “skills gap”
By Martin Hart-Landsberg, It has taken ten years of expansion, but the U.S. unemployment rate has finally fallen below
An Affordable Job Guarantee Program lecture by Fadhel Kaboub
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIypDUVxGb8&w=640&h=360] Fadhel Kaboub is Associate Profe
Deindustrialization in the Granite State: monetary policy, financialization, & the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
By Marie Duggan. From Dollars&Sense: The central room is 65,000 square feet with a high ceiling. This room is noisy
Unemployment: The Silent Epidemic
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment—its propagation mechanism and socioeco
The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
By Servaas Storm, The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of econo
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs
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Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr, & Darrick Hamilton Universal basic income (UBI), an annual government-sponsore
“JOBS FOR ALL”: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Mathew Forstater Not many folks remember that the 1963 “March on Washington” was officially named the “March on Wash