How To Make Help-Wanted Ads Disappear

September 28, 2011

The latest stimulus bill won’t do much to reduce unemployment, but it can still help you – if you are a lawyer or headhunter.

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We Need To Define Poverty Before We Measure It

September 21, 2011

How can we measure poverty, let alone reduce it, until we agree on what it is?

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How Many Jobs Does $447 Billion Buy?

September 14, 2011

If unit-pricing laws applied to the American Jobs Act, at least we’d know what the president wants to sell us for $447 billion.

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The President’s Pre-Game Show

September 7, 2011

How the president became the NFL’s pre-game show.

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Disabled By The Economy?

June 1, 2011

A lot of people are sick of bad economic news, but can a bad economy make people so sick they are actually unable to work? Like many politicians and executives, I tend to be cynical when I search for a link between rising unemployment rates and rising disability claims. Yet there certainly is some sort of connection. The Social Security Administration received 1.8 million more new claims in 2009 than …

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Obama’s Olive Branch Still Looks Like A Stick

February 10, 2011

President Obama strolled across the street from the White House this week to persuade American business leaders that he understands their needs and that he is on their side. Unfortunately, what the president’s neighborly visit to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce actually demonstrated is that two years in the White House have taught him next to nothing about the responsibilities of people who run private businesses or about how they …

Seeking A Slice Of ‘Onshoring’ Pie

January 8, 2010

When Ohio’s Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland shared a table at a White House state dinner with Indian businessman Ratan Tata, he was, in the eyes of some, dining with the enemy. Strickland’s state faced a 10.6 percent unemployment rate in October, higher than the national average of 10 percent. Meanwhile, the Tata Group’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has put itself at the forefront of the global outsourcing industry that many …

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