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Unemployment Likely To Fall to 7.2% in September, With Smaller Gains Going Forward

October 3, 2013, Regis Barnichon

How Far Are We From Full Employment?

September 26, 2013, George L. Perry

Metro Monitor - September 2013

September 25, 2013, Alec Friedhoff and Siddharth Kulkarni

The Lasting Effects of the Great Recession: Six Million Missing Workers and A New Economic Normal

September 12, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.3% in August, but Really the Jobs Numbers say "Blech!"

September 6, 2013, Justin Wolfers

Unemployment Projected to Drop to 7.3% but Future Recovery Compromised Absent Improvements on the Hiring Front

September 4, 2013, Regis Barnichon

How Far Are We From Full Employment?

August 27, 2013, Gary Burtless

The Unemployment Rate Is Edging Down, and the Job Picture Slowly Improving

August 2, 2013, Gary Burtless and

What New Immigrants Could Mean for American Wages

August 2, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

Lower Unemployment Projected for July, but Future Recovery Will Still Be Slower

July 31, 2013, Regis Barnichon

The Next Social Contract

July 19, 2013, Kemal Derviş

For the Last Time, Robots Do NOT Cause Unemployment

July 16, 2013, Scott Winship

Jobless Rate Stuck, But Employment Gains Remain Robust

July 5, 2013, Gary Burtless

Lower Unemployment Projected for June, but Future Jobs Recovery Will Be Slower

July 3, 2013, Regis Barnichon

Does the Unemployment Rate Mask Today’s Job Market Hardship?

July 2, 2013, Gary Burtless

Strategies for Assisting Low-Income Families

July 1, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill and Quentin Karpilow

Steady Employment Gains Offer Sign of Continued Expansion

June 7, 2013, Gary Burtless

Unemployment Rate Projected to Drop to 7.4 percent in May

June 5, 2013, Regis Barnichon

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

2013, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube

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Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs?

May 3, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

We've been in a very, very slow recovery now since 2009 and what we've been seeing is a very, very slow decline in the unemployment rate... increases in employment that barely keep up with the growth of the population.

May 3, 2013, William T. Dickens, Yahoo! News

Unemployment Projected to Remain at 7.6 Percent for April, But Expected to Drop Faster in Near Future

May 2, 2013, Regis Barnichon

Can Egypt’s Transition and Economy Be Saved?

May 1, 2013, Hafez Ghanem

In the Longer Run, the Short Run Matters

April 30, 2013, George L. Perry

Creating Jobs Where Institutions Matter: Addressing South Africa’s Unemployment Problem

April 26, 2013, Anne W. Kamau and Andrew Westbury