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
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
By Charles Umney, Ian Greer, Özlem Onaran, Graham Symon Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 fi
New Book: Inequality, Boom, and Bust – From Billionaire Capitalism to Equality and Full Employment
By Howard J. & Paul D. Sherman, From Routledge: There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the ri
US Official Unemployment is at 3.9%? It is More Like 12%
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fNrU9wvZ8&w=843&h=474] Unemployment is low and standard
Unemployment: The Silent Epidemic
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment—its propagation mechanism and socioeco
The French Economy, European Authorities, and the IMF: “Structural Reform” or Increasing Employment?
By Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Alexander Main, and David Rosnick: This paper looks at two competing views among econo
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
Top Eleven Dollars&Sense Charts and Graphs of 2016
D&S has compiled graphs & charts from the past year. Several draw on the series of “Economy in Numbers” columns