1. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Dec. 19 – 23, 2011
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, OccupyWallSt)

The following papers are highlights this week in labor market policy research:    Demos The Year in Review: What 2011 Meant for the 99% Tamara Draut and David Callahan Employment ...

2. “Take Back the Capitol”
(Matching tags: Wall Street, jobs, OccupyWallSt, unemployment, unions)

Today is the first day of a week-long protest, “Take Back the Capitol” (#99inDC). A collaborative effort between grassroots organizations, Occupy movements and unions, this protest strives to bring attention ...

3. Regroup, Re-strategize, React: The Two-Month Anniversary of #OWS
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

The birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement was raided and dismantled early Tuesday morning. At 1 a.m., NYPD in riot gear entered Zuccotti Park with an eviction notice in hand, telling protestors ...

4. Dealing With Things of Little Value: Occupy Wall Street and Copyrights
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, copyrights)

As the New York City police chase out and arrest protesters at the Occupy Wall Street site, they are also giving the world a lesson in how free market economics ain't what it is cracked up to be. One of ...

5. #OWS Survey Revisited
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

Héctor Cordero-Guzmán has conducted a second round of his #OWS survey on occupywallst.org, following up on his Oct. 5 study, which I discussed in an earlier post. Cordero-Guzmán fielded the second survey ...

6. Quick Thoughts on the Obama Administration's Opposition to a Financial Speculation Tax
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, OccupyWallSt)

The Obama administration has staked out grounds in opposition to the financial speculation tax is being considered by the European Union and was recently proposed in Congress by Senator Tom Harkin and ...

7. Occupy the House Education and Workforce Committee
(Matching tags: elections, labor market, OccupyWallSt, unions)

"They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions." That is one of the statements from the Declaration of the Occupation of New ...

8. #OWS: Freeze or Fade?
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

... Nature may be unpredictable but the movement is looking towards the long-term. On occupywallst.org the protestors are asking for winter donations, bundling up to survive future Nor’easters. To date, #OWS ...

9. CEPR News October 2011
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, inequality, OccupyWallSt, Argentina, Haiti)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the Financial Transaction Tax CEPR Co-director Dean Baker was one of the first to call for the adoption of ...

10. #OWS: Who Supports the Movement?
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt)

... anonymous survey posted October 5th on occupywallst.org, concluding that those involved in the #OWS movement are representative of the 99 percent. To see how Cordero-Guzmán’s 99 percent compares with the ...