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Analysis of today's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) release

Analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report.

The President, in his State of the Union speech, called on the Senate to quickly put together a jobs bill. In this memo, EPI economist Josh Bivens explains why a well-designed temporary job creation tax credit could be a useful part of an overall jobs bill and which version of the jobs tax credit now being considered by the Senate will have the largest impact on job creation.

Proposal to invest in highways, mass transit and bike and pedestrian routes would create close to half a million jobs.

This paper shows that immigration has a small positive effect on wages for native-born workers, including less educated workers.

Now that President Obama has released his budget, EPI's Director of Research and Policy offers further analysis.

The fourth quarter growth in gross domestic product was welcome, but won't be sustained for anywhere near long enough to address the jobs crisis and other problems.

Additional context on the country's high unemployment rate. (Updated January 2010.)

The nation’s 10% unemployment rate does not capture the severity of the crisis for minority workers in many regions of the country. This Issue brief provides a breakdown of the unemployment projections into 2010 for various demographic groups in every state.

The jobs data for December show that unemployed workers continue to have a very hard time finding work: layoffs are moderating significantly, but hiring is not yet picking up. Read a full analysis in EPI's Jobs Picture

This new Issue Brief shows that health care costs have been a trivial driver of overall wage trends.

In an ailing economy with idle workers and factories, larger deficits provide the spending that is necessary to ensure a robust recovery.

EPI's Senior International Economist Robert Scott says that Warren Buffett's plan for balancing the trade deficit is as relevant today as when it was first proposed in 2003.

Policy makers seeking ways to balance a large and growing U.S. trade deficit should revisit a plan Warren Buffett proposed six years ago.