The March issue of The Atlantic has a thoroughly depressing article about how employment might not pick up when the economy recovers. As if that wasn’t enough to send you…
Recession
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Ann Logue
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Americans have always had a fairly violent reaction to taxes, but they aren’t inherently evil — and in her latest Numberscruncher, Ann Logue hits the Teabaggers with a cold splash of reality.
Ann Logue
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Ben Bernanke said that the recession is over, but what he thinks isnÁ¢€â„¢t important. The more important arbiter of the business cycle, Federal Express, reported its earnings last week. Profits…
Ann Logue
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With pure obviousness, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that median household income in the United States fell to $50,303 in 2008, a 3.6 percent decline from 2007. Adjusted for inflation,…
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d6vjrzUplWU” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] The health-care crisis and the financial crisis have a problem in common, which is how the government can regulate those markets to make…
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Smddcs5n0H0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] For the month of May, the unemployment rate clocked in at 9.4%, the highest level since the early 1980s. It felt like old…
Ann Logue
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Do you deserve a raise? Of course you do. Everyone thinks that he or she is underpaid. ThatÁ¢€â„¢s just the nature of the working world. Teachers think that they are…
Ted Asregadoo
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As the news about the global economic downturn goes from bad to worse, we’re at a point where government inaction is not a palatable option. Something needs to be done,…
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