Friday, September 16, 2011

Boeing in South Carolina: Huge Subsidies, and a Labor Dispute

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Boeing's decision to add an assembly line for its new Dreamliner aircraft in South Carolina has touched off a firestorm of controversy. ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

ACA Works for Young Adults as Planned; Percentage of Uninsured Hispanics also Falls

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On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty, and health insurance for the year 2010. Based on surveys at ap...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Employment to Population Ratio a Better Predictor of Uninsurance than Unemployment Rate

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Commenter David Littleboy at The Incidental Economist , where my unemployment/jobs post was linked, makes the good point that the employment...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Increase in Uninsured Rate Shows Need for Action on Jobs

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“Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted,” blares the headline at CNSnews and a number of other conser...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Labor Day: Of Nine OECD Members with a Higher Minimum Wage than U.S., Seven Have Lower Unemployment Rates

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When Michele Bachmann says she would “consider” lowering the minimum wage, she tapped into the long-standing theme of conservative economist...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Labor Day: U.S. Has Fifth Lowest Union Density in the OECD

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As was reaffirmed by Vice-President Biden on Labor Day, the American middle class was originally built by the labor movement. That unions h...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Labor Day; U.S. Has Weakest Employment Protections Among OECD and BRICS

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This is the first in a series of posts on the sorry state of American labor. International comparisons make this very clear. U.S. workers ar...
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