Labor Policy & Unemployment

The Fed as poverty fighter

Isabel V. Sawhill and Nathan Joo

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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Weather adjusting economic data

Michael Boldin and Jonathan H. Wright

Fall 2015

Examining the success of Success Academy charter schools

Ian Livingston

Thursday, September 10, 2015

An American flag waves over an empty lot in Waveland, Mississippi

The end of laboring days?

Isabel V. Sawhill

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

On Labor Day, a look at the state of the unions

Vanessa Williamson

Monday, September 7, 2015

Job market continues to improve, but labor force participation remains weak

Gary Burtless

Friday, September 4, 2015

Unemployment projected to drop to 5.2 percent in August and reach 4.7 percent by year’s end

Regis Barnichon

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Who protects workers in the on-demand economy?

Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West

Thursday, August 27, 2015

A huge portion of the region’s advanced industries presence owes to 50 years of accumulated technology capabilities, purchasing, and human capital development through the military industrial complex... That’s where ultimately all of our biotech, software, and now cyber and big analytics capacities come from.

Mark Muro The Washington Post Sunday, August 23, 2015

Africa in the news: South African mining sector takes hit, Burundi shaken by assassinations, Zimbabwe undergoes mass firings

Radhika Goyal

Friday, August 7, 2015