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When Monique Nyampong graduated from Long Island University last May, she wished she had a headhunter who knew of employers with openings that would be right for her.
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Six of America's most prominent conservative economists have gotten together to produce a diagnosis of our economic problems that is detached from reality.
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After serving time in a Virginia prison following convictions on gun and drug-possession charges, Sean Collins-Harris decided he would fight the odds against his ever returning to white-collar work with the only tool he had: education.
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The labor market is healing faster for immigrants than for U.S.-born workers as the growing economy favors those at the low and high ends of the pay scale.
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The worsening crisis in Europe and the slow recovery in the U.S. are distracting attention from a longer-term problem.
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Economist David Autor recently introduced me to a delightfully depressing concept: “now-more- than-everism.” Credit for the coinage goes to Larry Summers , the former U.S. Treasury secretary who is also former director of the National Economic Council, but anyone who follows politics will recognize the premise.
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The conversation in Washington is shifting from taxes to entitlement spending and, in particular, how to slow the unsustainable growth of Social Security and Medicare.
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Michael White says he wishes he still could pluck the bass line to Hank Williams Jr.’s “Born to Boogie” and pay bills with money he earns himself. High unemployment -- along with ailments that he says render his fingers inoperative and make him cough up blood -- have dashed his hopes.
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The aging of America may be good for the U.S. labor market.
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The National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. recession ended in June 2009, yet 2012 didn’t look like much of a resurgence.
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