Economic Snapshots Switch Display

Manufacturing job loss: Productivity is not the culprit

February 21, 2007 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Trade deficits still rising in most industries despite strong export growth

February 7, 2007 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Bush’s health plan scratches the surface, starts an infection

February 2, 2007 | By Elise Gould
Health

GDP Picture, January 31, 2007

January 31, 2007 | By Josh Bivens
Trade and Globalization

Minimum wage increasingly lags poverty line

January 31, 2007 | By Liana Fox
Trade and Globalization

Workers returned to the labor market as employment opportunities expanded

January 24, 2007 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth

New data reveal unprecedented income inequality

January 17, 2007 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

A Plunging Dollar? How Far and Relative to What?

December 20, 2006 | By Josh Bivens
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Jobs recovery at five reveals uniquely weak expansion

December 12, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Federal support for employment and training services dwindles

December 6, 2006 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Wages Incomes and Wealth

The Fed needs to move to stay put

November 29, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Economic Growth

Government grants and loans cover less of college costs

November 15, 2006 | By Joydeep Roy
Education

A tough recovery by any measure

November 8, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Fuel for Thought: The High Cost of Energy

November 1, 2006 | By Max B. Sawicky
Unions and Labor Standards

Employment cost data show small real gains over recovery

October 31, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Unions and Labor Standards

State minimum wages on the ballot

October 25, 2006 | By Liana Fox
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Higher share of high school students enrolled in college prep

October 18, 2006 | By Joydeep Roy
Education

Dow’s all-time high inconsequential for most Americans

October 11, 2006 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Broken promises: NAFTA cost U.S. jobs and reduced wages

October 4, 2006 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

More Children are Uninsured

September 27, 2006 | By Elise Gould
Trade and Globalization

Manufacturing on the Ropes

September 19, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Better GDP growth needed to add more jobs

September 13, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

The Gender Pay Gap is the Smallest on Record — Not Necessarily Good News

September 6, 2006 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth

The wide impact of the housing slump on the economy

August 29, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Wealth inequality is vast and growing

August 22, 2006 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Employers shift health insurance costs onto workers

August 15, 2006 | By Lawrence Mishel
Health

Work, poverty, and single-mother families

August 8, 2006 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty

Inflation: whose fault is it, anyway?

August 2, 2006 | By Josh Bivens
Economic Growth

Federal inaction forces states to raise minimum wages

July 26, 2006 | By Mary Gable
Unions and Labor Standards