The WSJ Economics Blog, discussing June 2010 unemployment rates by state, uses the headline “Most Regions Show Improvement“* I suppose we should be encouraged by the headline and not look…

…directly address their needs. Rivlin did acknowledge the high rate of unemployment, but primarily in emphasizing her view that the economic stimulus may have lessened to 10% the peak unemployment…

…anticipated high unemployment (low employment) in 2010 has crippled the Fund. Nothing short of a major overhaul can turn it around at this point. The damage has been too great.”…

…essentially nowhere to go. Unemployment is ubiquitously high, and the housing market is lousy – can’t sell your home, can’t get a job. This Great Recession dragged net-domestic migration (moving…

…unemployment in the coming years. One of the most common criticisms of my argument is that I am “not thinking like an economist” and that I’m viewing things in terms…

…shifted out. I believe it has shifted in in the past 16 years. In other words you seem to be arguing that natural rate of unemployment has increased which explains…

…the state level in August, 20 states had unemployment rates greater than the national average of 6.1 percent, while 31 states had unemployment rates below the national average. Yet, the…

…period. These disasters linger long in collective memories, influencing public policy and investment practice for extended periods of time. Fear of the double-digit unemployment rates of the Great Depression dominated…

…So the President starts with that old canard of comparing the average unemployment rate during the 1990’s to last month’s rate – forgetting to tell people that unemployment fell during…

…unemployment benefits are a small part of entitlements. Also notice that unemployment benefits rose by 71% as the labor market was weaker in 2004 than it was in 2000. Transfer…