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 [...]
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) [...]
Gallup released a survey last week showing that American households earning $90,000 a year of more reported that their daily spending has fallen about 36 percent since 2008. This spending excludes mortgages, cars and utility bills. One of the biggest arguments used against giving tax cuts to upper income households is that any financial benefit from the [...]
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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 [...]
Note: Guest blogger Alex Bachik, a NCPA research associate, gives his thoughts on the growth of the food stamp program. Over the past four years, unemployment benefits have been extended, disability claims have risen sharply…what could be next? Food stamps. With the attitudes cheap cialis expressed by the current administration it should be no surprise [...]
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. [...]