…This is what Trump wants. Moreso than layoffs, what will happen are disruptions of programs. Unemployment, Social Security, VA checks, etc. This will set people off balance and cause public…

Looking at Black American employment in 10 major cities and what is at risk under the Trump administration. Unemployment was at record lows in the recent past. Trump’s anti-equity agenda…

…7.5 percent, which would be a very bad recession unemployment rate for white workers. But the really striking part of the story is that unemployment for white workers has barely…

…find jobs. For the less educated young people or the young altogether and Black Americans unemployment is increasing. During and shortly after the pandemic workers on the low end of…

…a whole, and also somewhat noisily for the monthly unemployment rate. In the past several months, I have highlighted what appears to be a “regime change” in claims that dates…

…and continuing claims down -5.4%: Since it is early in the month, I’ll dispense with my typical look at what that might mean for the unemployment rate. But let me…

…an expansion since GDP has fully retraced its recession losses; but the unemployment rate tells a very different story. (click to enlarge) The chart illustrates the unemployment rate after 24…

…policy elites don’t dare concede the futility of fiscal austerity. Hence, they resort to invoking theories like the “equilibrium unemployment rate”, or “non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment “(NAIRU, for short),…

The Economist asks: Is America facing an increase in structural unemployment? and invited economists answer here….

…John Boehner’s Theory of the Leisure Class, Paul Krugman, NYTimes.com, today Okay, Krugman goes on to point out that overwhelming economic evidence refutes Boehner’s believe that the actual unemployment rate…