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Economic Policy Institute

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Name: Economic Policy Institute

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Graduates And Their Job Prospects

34 nursing students received their pins this afternoon at Truckee Meadows Community College.In front of proud family and friends, the students talked about their struggles and successes, and why they chose this profession.“The big thing is the ability ... [Published KOLO TV Reno - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Mary Orr, Truckee Meadows Community College, Economic Policy Institute, IT Limited, Machining

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Darrell Issa

When It Comes to Silicon Valley, Darrell Issa's in a Giving Mood

IRS-gate and the other scandals that have consumed Washington over the past week have been good news for advocates of immigration reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee quietly struck a series of key compromises and by Tuesday approved a bill that, if ... [Published BusinessWeek - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Silicon Valley, Darrell Issa, Workers

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

The Deficit Is Shrinking! (and Nobody Cares)

On May 14, as Washington officialdom was transfixed by the IRS scandal, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the budget deficit will shrink this fiscal year to $642 billion, or just 4 percent of gross domestic product. It’s the smallest deficit ... [Published BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Gross Domestic Product, Jared Bernstein, Medicare, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Mississippi

Initial applications for unemployment benefits improve to 340,000

After climbing sharply the previous week, seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 18 fell to 340,000, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. That was a decrease of 23,000 from the previous week's revised ... [Published Daily Kos - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Unemployment, Mississippi, Workers, Economic Policy Institute

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 reports

NC Black jobless rate twice higher

BY CASH MICHAELSOF THE WILMINGTON JOURNALIn a shocking report released just last week, despite clear signs that North Carolina is in an economic recovery, African-American unemployment in the Tar Heel state was 17.3 percent – one in six black workers ... [Published Wilmington Journal - 18 hours ago]

Entities: African-Americans, Jobless Rate, Unemployment

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Debunking the H-1B hogwash: STEM grads are pouring out of U.S. colleges

Data giants like Facebook say we need more H-1B visas to fill U.S. STEM grad void -- but the numbers don't liePrint|Credit: iStockphotoCan there be too much of a good thing? When it comes to tech-educated students, the answer is sometimes. On the one ... [Published InfoWorld - 16 hours ago]

Entities: United States, Workers, Caroline Craig

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Black Unemployment Is Still Shamefully High The Atlantic

This year, Washington's political class hasn't merely given up on trying to fix U.S. unemployment; it's given up on $ the subject. This is shameful, and not simply because the jobless rate is still two or so percentage points higher nationwide than it ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 22 2013]

Entities: Unemployment, Stock Market, Economic Policy Institute

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Green: EPA Rules: Show Me the Money

A new U.S. government report shows that the benefits of government regulations substantially outweigh the costs. Looking at all federal regulators, the report found that health and environmental protections created by the Environmental Protection Agency ... [Published Huffington Post - May 22 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Michael Green, Air Pollution

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

States Sending the Most Goods to China

Over the past decade, U.S. exports to China have grown at an annual rate of nearly 17% each year. In 2012 alone, the 50 states shipped more than $100 billion worth of goods. After Canada and Mexico, China is now the U.S.?s third-largest trade partner. ... [Published 24/7 Wall St - May 22 2013]

Entities: China, United States, Commodities, US Department of Agriculture

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Is it worth it: Master's degree

www.DimeSpring.comWhen the job market stinks, many college students take refuge in graduate school, figuring the time and money spent getting a master’s degree will boost their career prospects. But with the interest rate on student loans doubling to ... [Published Middletown Journal - May 20 2013]

Entities: Graduate School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Inflation, Economic Policy Institute, Northeastern University

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Federal Job Cuts: Popularity Contests Are No Insurance

Recent Pew research has shown that government and government agencies have been hemorrhaging jobs at disproportionally higher rates than the rest of the public sector.State, local, and municipal governments — those among the most favorably viewed by Americans ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 19 2013]

Entities: Layoffs, Recession, Jacob Hacker

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Union: Tech Industry Is “Greedy” For Wanting To End Hiring Wait Period For Immigrants

“The tech industry is, frankly, being greedy. They are going back and asking for changes to language they helped write and blatantly trying to roll back requirements that give high-skilled American workers a fair shot at getting a job,” said AFL-CIO ... [Published TechCrunch - May 17 2013]

Entities: Economic Policy Institute, AFL-CIO, Roll Back, Workers

Quotes

"This initiative is a model of how public-private partnerships can both conserve our land and provide opportunities for our young people to obtain jobs skills and broaden their horizons by connecting with the great outdoors" Jewell, sworn in last month as the 51st secretary of the interior, said in a prepared statement

U.S. Secretary of the Interior visits Portland, announces 600 jobs tied to youth-employment conse ... [Published Oregonian - 2 hours ago]

...He argues that as long as the economy keeps growing, the deficit will continue to trend lower: "Who would you rather put inin charge of fixing the country’s finances: Congress or the invisible hand of Adam Smith?"

The Deficit Is Shrinking! (and Nobody Cares) [Published BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago]

"We teach our students that fairness and the market are two completely different things," says Bidwell. "The market is all about matching supply and demand and trying to tailor compensation to get and retain the best people you can while not paying too much to everyone else. Fairness is paying everyone the same. To some extent, you can do one or the other. The more we focus on fairness, the more we risk losing our [best] people or people with unusual situations. The more we say we want certain people and will do whatever is necessary to get them, the more we [inject] unfairness and inequity into the workplace. There is no easy answer."

Why Pretty Much Everyone Thinks They're Underpaid [Published Business Insider - 12 hours ago]

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U.S. Secretary of the Interior visits Portland,... [Published Oregonian - 2 hours ago]
Graduates And Their Job Prospects [Published KOLO TV Reno - 4 hours ago]
When It Comes to Silicon Valley, Darrell Issa's... [Published BusinessWeek - 5 hours ago]
The Deficit Is Shrinking! (and Nobody Cares) [Published BusinessWeek - 6 hours ago]
Why Pretty Much Everyone Thinks They're Underpaid [Published Business Insider - 12 hours ago]
Initial applications for unemployment benefits ... [Published Daily Kos - 13 hours ago]
North Carolina ranks No. 4 in the unemployment ... [Published Individual.com - 15 hours ago]
Debunking the H-1B hogwash: STEM grads are pour... [Published InfoWorld - 16 hours ago]
NC Black jobless rate twice higher [Published Wilmington Journal - 18 hours ago]
Joblessness Draws on Country’s Resiliency in Me... [Published New Journal Guide - 20 hours ago]
A stinky onion blooms in the Senate, say H-1B c... [Published Computerworld Australia - May 22 2013]
A stinky onion blooms in the Senate, say H-1B c... [Published Computerworld - May 22 2013]
Black Unemployment Is Still Shamefully High The... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 22 2013]
Michael Green: EPA Rules: Show Me the Money [Published Huffington Post - May 22 2013]
Black jobless rate higher than for whites in N.C. [Published New York Business Journal - May 22 2013]
States Sending the Most Goods to China [Published 24/7 Wall St - May 22 2013]
Tevlin: Minnesota minimum wage hike got lost in... [Published Minneapolis Star Tribune - May 22 2013]
Why Michigan's Black Unemployment Rate Is Troub... [Published Huffington Post - May 21 2013]
Congresswoman Nita Lowey Outlines Impact of GOP... [Published Congresswoman Nita Lowey - May 21 2013]
New college graduates find job market unwelcoming [Published Modesto Bee - May 21 2013]
The Undocumented: Why Do They Still Come? [Published City Watch - May 21 2013]
Indianapoils sees large increase in poverty, bu... [Published Indianapolis Star - May 21 2013]
Deficit Fixed. Now Fix The Job Gap, Wage Gap An... [Published Seeing the Forest - May 20 2013]
Nostalgic for the Gatsby era? (Surprise! You’re... [Published Economic Policy Institute - May 20 2013]
AIG CEO tells college graduates facing economic... [Published Deseret Morning News - May 20 2013]
What The Media Should Know About The Competitiv... [Published Media Matters for America - May 20 2013]
Is it worth it: Master's degree [Published Middletown Journal - May 20 2013]
Why does Michigan have the highest black unempl... [Published Michigan Public Radio - May 20 2013]
Is it worth it: Master's degree [Published Atlanta Journal And Constitution - May 20 2013]
Asian-Americans: Smart, High-Incomes And ... Poor? [Published NHPR - May 20 2013]

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Initial applications for unemployment benefits ... [Published Daily Kos - 13 hours ago] After climbing sharply the previous week, seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 18 fell to 340,000, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. That was a decrease of 23,000 from the previous week's revised ...
Deficit Fixed. Now Fix The Job Gap, Wage Gap An... [Published Seeing the Forest - May 20 2013] The deficit is now down 60 percent as a percent of gross domestic product. It is down more than the deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles asked for. This rapid reduction is seriously hurting the economy and jobs, but demands for cuts continue. ...
Links 5/20/13 [Published naked capitalism - May 20 2013] Calling all scholars willing and able to contribute new ideas to economics! The Institute for New Economic Thinking is offering research grants of up to $250,000 . For details, see here . Green sea turtle swims underwater for first time in 11 years ...
Religious Freedom Lures Many to U.S. from Asia [Published Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and p ... - May 20 2013] It's been two decades since California Gov. Pete Wilson used grainy ads of undocumented immigrants – "They keep coming" – as an effective means of stoking fear of newcomers and assuring his re-election. Yet,increasingly America's immigration realities ...
Federal Job Cuts: Popularity Contests Are No In... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 19 2013] Recent Pew research has shown that government and government agencies have been hemorrhaging jobs at disproportionally higher rates than the rest of the public sector.State, local, and municipal governments — those among the most favorably viewed by Americans ...

Audio/Video

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Colleges Cutting Tuition Prices to Attract Stud... [Published FOX Business - Video - May 07 2013]
New Way to Calculate GDP? [Published FOX Business - Video - Apr 26 2013]
Obama Social Security Proposal a Compromise or ... [Published FOX Business - Video - Apr 09 2013]
Can Different Budget Authors Compromise? [Published FOX Business - Video - Mar 26 2013]
Budget Debate Heats Up in DC [Published FOX Business - Video - Mar 11 2013]