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College Degrees: You Read it Here First (Again)

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 [...]

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 [...]

Unemployment Shrinks, and Again, So Does Labor Force Participation

How lucky for the president that his convention speech was followed by this morning’s slightly smaller unemployment rate and a more significant reduction in the U-6 rate (8.1 percent and 14.7 percent in August, compared to 8.2 percent and 15 percent buy cialis online uk in July). For more analysis on the accuracy of unemployment [...]

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 [...]