Category: Employment Issues

The Shrinking Workforce: You Read it Here First

A funny thing happened on the way to the labor market.  The unemployment rate fell last month to 7.6%, but the labor force participation rate fell to 63.3%, the lowest in about 34 years.  The LFPR is reported monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics but it has not received much attention until recently.   So while the [...]

Minimum Wage Hysteria from Progressives

I was going to let the latest minimum wage issue pass and defer to last year’s NCPA publication on the topic. But every now and then, patent silliness from other sources deserves a response. A report from the Soros-funded Center for Economic and Policy Research (which was released a year ago, but has suddenly become a hot topic) [...]

Why I Oppose the Paycheck Fairness Act

I find it puzzling that considering the recent creep up in the unemployment rate, some in Congress want to place additional hiring and reporting burdens on employers. At issue is the Paycheck Fairness Act, which has already been rejected by the Senate two times.  But as they say, a third time is a charm, so [...]

The Second Debate and the Real Jobs Question

Last night’s debate left me a bit queasy.  It wasn’t Candy Crowley’s implicit cheerleading of the president or her incorrect “correction” of Mitt Romney on the Benghazi question.  Nor was it the fact that both candidates were interrupting each other so often that few coherent messages made their way to viewers.  It was the first [...]

Unemployment: From the Department of "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm…"

Do We Really Need Plastic Bag Bans?

A few years ago while I was on a trip to Washington D.C., I stopped to purchase some bottled water buy viagra in uk at a local drug store. As I scanned and bagged my purchases at the automated self check-out, the display screen asked me how many bags I was using. I selected “2″ [...]

8.2% and Holding…

Just like this summer's heatwave – constant and unrelenting – so are the unemployment numbers. Nothing much has changed, except th how to use ipad for business at the U-6 unemployment rate (remember those discouraged workers?) has ticked up a bit from 14.8 percent cialis 5 mg daily in May to 14.9 percent in June. [...]

Private Sector Employment Stumbles, but Government Employment Shrinks

The latest news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is more of the same. Unemployment is still stubbornly high at 8.2 percent (one-tenth of a percentage point higher than April) and the U6 rate (underemployed, part-time and discouraged workers) stands at 14.8 percent (three-tenths of a point cialis coupon higher than April). These numbers are [...]

Unemployment Rate is Only Part of the News

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest numbers – viagra prices the unemployment rate fell a whopping one-tenth of a percentage point, from 8.2 in March to 8.1 in April. While some viagra professional (particularly people who are running for re-election) may see this as a buy viagra online promising path to a rate [...]

Update: Common Sense Wins Out Over Proposed Farm Regulations

The Obama administration’s Labor Department has withdrawn its propose rules that would prohibit viagra online children from doing nearly all types cialis online pharmacy of farm work. (See