Economic Snapshots Switch Display


Manufacturing job loss: Productivity is not the culprit

Trade deficits still rising in most industries despite strong export growth

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

GDP Picture, January 31, 2007

Minimum wage increasingly lags poverty line

Workers returned to the labor market as employment opportunities expanded

New data reveal unprecedented income inequality

A Plunging Dollar? How Far and Relative to What?

Jobs recovery at five reveals uniquely weak expansion

Federal support for employment and training services dwindles

The Fed needs to move to stay put

Government grants and loans cover less of college costs

A tough recovery by any measure

Fuel for Thought: The High Cost of Energy

Employment cost data show small real gains over recovery

State minimum wages on the ballot

Higher share of high school students enrolled in college prep

Dow’s all-time high inconsequential for most Americans

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

More Children are Uninsured

Manufacturing on the Ropes

Better GDP growth needed to add more jobs

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

The wide impact of the housing slump on the economy

Wealth inequality is vast and growing

Employers shift health insurance costs onto workers

Work, poverty, and single-mother families

Inflation: whose fault is it, anyway?

Federal inaction forces states to raise minimum wages