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Long-Term Unemployment
March 3, 2021
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Jacob Silverman
Rip Up the Unemployment System and Start Again
A year of mass unemployment has revealed the failures of a cruelly designed, state-run system. We can build something better.
May 22, 2020
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J.C. Pan
What If Mass Unemployment Is Here to Stay?
We need anti-poverty measures that treat wide-scale joblessness as a starting point, not as a temporary problem that will naturally resolve itself.
December 30, 2014
Adam Nathaniel Peck
The Three Worst Economic Predictions of 2014
Minimum wage hikes will cripple job growth? Long-term unemployment is tied to unemployment benefits? Obamacare will be a drain on the economy?
August 1, 2014
Danny Vinik
July Jobs Report: Slow, Steady Job Growth Continues
July 9, 2014
Danny Vinik
Four Signs Long-Term Unemployment Is Becoming a National Tragedy
July 7, 2014
Danny Vinik
Conservatives Say Cutting Unemployment Benefits Boosted the Jobs Numbers. This Chart Says Otherwise.
July 3, 2014
Danny Vinik
Recovery Summer May Finally Have Arrived
Finally, a jobs report routs expectations
April 23, 2014
Danny Vinik
Conservatives Miss the Main Liberal Argument on Unemployment Benefits—the One That's Proving Correct
April 18, 2014
Danny Vinik
Map: See Which States Have the Worst Job Markets
March 13, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Senate Has a Deal on Unemployment Benefits. Here's What You Need to Know.
March 5, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Glaring Hole In Obama's Budget
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