41. PDT Survey Looks at Efforts to Improve and Increase Local Procurement
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, ngos, haitian ngos, aid, economy, job creation)

... good nor bad for the economy. Eleven per cent even stated that international organisations do the Haitian economy more harm than good.” Only half of Haitian companies believed international organizations ...

42. Even the Guy Who Dosn't Care About Poor People Wants to Raise the Minimum Wage: Where Does President Obama Stand?
(Matching tags: economy, recession, Obama, election 2012, romney)

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who remarked yesterday that he doesn't care about the poor, supports indexing the minimum wage to inflation. If the minimum wage had been indexed since its last ...

43. Obama's Main Constituency Has Always Been the Major Media
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, Obama)

To understand President Obama’s State of the Union speech, you have to understand his political strategy. From the beginning of his 2008 campaign, his main constituency has always been the major media. ...

44. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 16 – 20, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, unemployment, wages)

This week, we post links to reports from the Center for American Progress, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and National Employment Law Project. Center for American Progress Building a Technically ...

45. Consumer Price Index Unchanged for Third Consecutive Month
(Matching tags: economy, prices, wages)

... is far removed as a threat to the economy. For a more in-depth analysis, read the latest Prices Byte.  ...

46. The Great Gatsby Curve
(Matching tags: poverty, economy)

Source: Alan Krueger, Council of Economic Advisers. Economist Miles Corak, one of the world’s leading experts on economic mobility, has written a devastating take-down of the core of two recent ...

47. Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, environment)

Natural gas companies are trying to sell fracking as the solution to all of the economic ills ailing this country.  Supposedly fracking can bring the economy out of its current stagnation by creating ...

48. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Dec. 5 – 16, 2011
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, unemployment)

Recently released reports from CBPP, EPI, NELP, and PERI: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities House Unemployment Insurance Proposal Would Harm Jobless Workers, Weaken Economy, and Undermine UI ...

49. Consumer Price Index Unchanged, Rebounding Dollar Restrains Import Prices
(Matching tags: economy, prices)

... pressures in the economy, with a rebounding dollar that is helping keep import prices low and a decrease in the real hourly wage. For an in-depth analysis, check out the latest Prices Byte.  ...

50. Faith-Based Economics?
(Matching tags: economy, recession, Keynes)

This post is part of a month-long discussion on Cato Unbound on John Maynard Keynes. After Tim Congdon’s response to my earlier piece, I am a bit confused what we are debating. First, to finish up the ...