Economic Snapshots Switch Display


Decline in job openings fuels unemployment

Back to the future for investment spending?

CEOs make in a day what average worker does in a year

Few states qualify for unemployment insurance extension

Hard landing in store as debt deepens

What helps mothers stay employed?

Do career women trade away motherhood?

Job tenure of former welfare recipients

Retirement nest egg grows only for wealthiest

Retirement income adequacy falls

Slow growth for pension coverage

Minimum wage losing ground

Restaurant employment sags despite high sales

Greater effort needed on school spending

Tax breaks dwarf Social Security, Medicare shortfalls

Surging dollar contributes to growing trade deficit, job loss

Consumer debt defaults, delinquency on the rise

Education offers less protection from recessions

Medicare can’t keep pace with drug costs

Unemployment extension may be too little, too late

Extending unemployment insurance benefits

China trade deficit threat to U.S., others

Unemployment drop masks labor market woes

Business sector declines mean longer recession

Consumption and economic growth

What if Enron workers had traded Social Security for stock?

More customers, not more cash

Welfare rolls still declining as unemployment rises

What happened with the rebate checks?