Much of this might not be so bad if Tru_p had any taste for architecture. I suspect the Beverly Hill Billies might have better architectural taste than our president. Probably…

…on Romney’s record of an employment decline followed by a slow increase (Via American Bridge Via Daily Kos) Five minutes searching for Romney on Obama’s record of an employment decline…

Rules requiring firms to restrict employment to their country of origin would be hideously inefficient if applied on a global basis, and they would be every bit as devastating to…

…over extending inadequate unemployment benefits. The unemployment crisis has its origins in the housing crash, but the prior deregulation of the labor market made the fallout more severe. Like other…

Facts or Fallacies Part III: Combinations, Murder and the Primordial Lump by Tom Walker (Sandwichman at Ecological Headstand) In Part I, I compared the statistical fact that non-farm employment was…

lifted from comments by run 75441 These are comments that I found interesting describing change to manufacturing processes over tha last few decades. It made for a foil next to…

…(long run) rate of unemployment may be shifting (they do this by showing that the Beveridge curve, which plots the the job vacancy rate against the unemployment rate, is shifting…

…to the business cycle, the unemployment rate will rise or fall by one percent. The magnitude of swings in unemployment will always be half or nearly half the magnitude of…

…even though industrial employment has fallen as a share of total employment and in absolute numbers in recent years. But there is a problem with this comparison. The index of…

…interesting looking chart, very similar to many I do. But it struck me as odd, there was something wrong with it. I can not remember a single recession where employment…