21. Labor Market Policy Research Reports May 14 - 18, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, Social Security, budget, middle class, income, paid time off)

The following are the latest labor market policy research reports from the last week. Center for American Progress The American Middle Class, Income Inequality, and the Strength of Our Economy: New ...

22. Consumer Price Index Remains Flat in April as Price of Energy Commodities Falls
(Matching tags: economy, prices)

... economy and induce additional hiring. This would be particularly important to the United States if the deflationary crisis in Europe should cause both a fall in demand for American exports compounded by ...

23. Should We Cut Cancer Research to Pay for More Bombers?
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, unemployment, defense, budget)

... roughly 10 percent. There are good economic reasons for questioning the wisdom of cutting the federal budget while the economy is still saddled with high rates of unemployment and large amounts of excess ...

24. How An Investor's Gain Can Be Your Loss
(Matching tags: economy, taxes, private equity, investors)

... to society than their own bank accounts. In a guest post on NPR's Planet Money blog, Dean Baker disagrees. In his new book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy ...

25. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 30 – May 4, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, economy, jobs, labor market, unemployment, education, taxes, minimum wage, gender, social services, public sector workers)

Here is this week's roundup of labor-market policy research reports: Center for American Progress Women and Obamacare: What’s at Stake for Women if the Supreme Court Strikes Down the Affordable Care ...

26. April Jobs Numbers Continue Slowing Trend
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, unemployment)

The economy added 115,000 jobs in April, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment report. While the March number was revised up to 154,000, the 135,000 two-month average is well below ...

27. Public Pensions as Stimulus and the Problem of Recession Deniers
(Matching tags: economy, recession, Keynes)

... is essential in assessing Andrew Bigg's dismissal of the idea that public pensions can provide stimulus to the economy. Biggs is a prominent conservative economist who served in the Bush administration ...

28. CEPR in the News April 2012
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, cholera, economy, housing, Haiti, Social Security, stimulus, austerity, low-wage workers, Latvia)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Low-Wage Workers A recent CEPR paper on the low-wage labor force finds that the average low-wage worker today ...

29. Growth in GDP Falls to 2.2 Percent in First Quarter
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, GDP, government spending)

...  The weak growth in GDP combined with weak job growth makes it clear the economy is not performing especially well. The economy should be capable of higher-than-normal growth coming out of a deep recession. ...

30. Austerity, the Path to Prosperity?
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, spending, stimulus, austerity, budget, deficit)

Rep. Paul Ryan sat down with Steve Forbes recently to have a "very serious" conversation about the U.S. economy. The architect of the House budget plan, Ryan stated in the interview that what America needs ...

31. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 16 – 20, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, economy, housing, labor market)

... Services Have Been States’ Primary Response to Budget Gaps, Harming the Nation’s Economy Elizabeth McNichol Economic Policy Institute Public Investment: The Next ‘New Thing’ For Powering Economic ...

32. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 9 – 13, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, retirement, Social Security, paid family leave, budget, medicaid, SNAP)

... Jane Glynn The State of Communities of Color in the U.S. Economy: Still Feeling the Pain Three Years into the Recovery Christian E. Weller, Julie Ajinkya, and Jane Farrell Center for Economic and ...

33. Congressional Budget Office Projects the Return of the Housing Bubble
(Matching tags: economy, recession, housing, GDP)

... is now projecting, with the economy taking even longer to get back to its potential output and for the unemployment rate to fall back to more normal levels.  ...

34. Jobs Day
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, unemployment)

Justin Wolfers correctly tweets this morning that: “As unemployment falls, so will long-term joblessness.” But, it could still take a very long time. The labor-market categories that Janelle Jones ...

35. And the Struggle Continues…
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, unemployment)

Here at CEPR we like to fight for the underdog, so as economic blogs are all aflutter over the recent string of positive numbers, we’d like to remind you that for many, the struggle continues. Since our ...

36. Home Sales Improve in January But Drag on Market Remains
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, housing, recovery)

The pending home sales index for January had the highest reading since April of 2010, when the first-time homebuyers tax credit expired. Sales in the South were especially strong, up by more than 10 percent ...

37. Quick Thoughts on Modern Monetary Theory
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, Keynes, monetary policy, dollar)

... first studied more than 30 years ago. I guess I still don’t see the difference. In my prior post I noted that there were three channels to raise the economy back towards its potential: Government ...

38. AEI Touts the End of the Deficit Problem
(Matching tags: health care, economy, budget)

... in a world where health care spending grows at pretty much the same rate as the overall economy, there will no longer be a deficit tsunami in the long-term budget projections that can be used to justify ...

39. Getting A Grip on Deficit Hysterics
(Matching tags: health care, economy, Social Security, budget, deficit)

Promoting fears about the budget deficit is a major industry in Washington. The central theme is usually that we have out of control spending which will make us just like Greece in only a few short years. ...

40. Parting Ways with the Pessimists
(Matching tags: economy, recession)

... economic pessimists, warning of the housing bubble and the damage that its collapse would do to the economy. I based this pessimism on my analysis of the housing market, not a genetic disposition to ...