Forefront Topic
Employment
- Unemployment Benefits: Help or Hindrance?
- Amy Koehnen
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- Almost 15 million Americans were jobless as of the end of 2010, a strikingly high 9.4 percent of the would-be working population.
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- Unemployment and the Great Recession
- Murat Tasci
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- Is high unemployment here to stay?
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- The Labor Force: To Work or Not to Work
- Daniel Hartley
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- Why economists pay attention to the labor force participation rate.
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- Why Manufacturing (Still) Matters?And How It Can Endure
- Kyle Fee
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- Insights from the National Association of Business Economics’ first industry-specific conference
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- Job Talk: Chairman Bernanke joins business leaders at Ohio State University
- Doug Campbell
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- Jobs—we know where they went, but when will they come back? That was the question before a panel of five business leaders and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when they met at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business on November 30. Even though the recovery officially began in the summer of 2009, unemployment still hovers near 10 percent, and millions of Americans cannot find work. In a discussion moderated by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Sandra Pianalto, the assembled chief executives candidly shared their perspectives on why job creation has been so slow, and what they think would improve the situation.
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