The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the diminishing value of the bachelor’s degree compared to a two-year degree at a community college. With the billions of dollars of federal money poured into college aid and the predicted shortages of workers in jobs that require technical training, it is no wonder that more people are [...]
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 [...]
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill It seems that there is a video about wealth inequality that is going “viral.” This compelling video paints a bleak picture of the haves versus the have-nots (courtesy of very left-leaning websites such as Mother [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
real viagra online Another Friday, another dismal unemployment rate: 7.9 percent, which is slightly higher than last month. So while everybody is wondering how this will affect the upcoming election results, I have been looking at a couple of other indicators that may keep the unemployment rate unmoved for months to come. Labor productivity [...]
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 [...]