Economic Snapshots Switch Display


Weekly benefit amounts for the unemployed

Help (not) wanted—service sector no respite for unemployed

What happens to family income in a recession?

Nation sneezes, states catch cold

Comparing recessionary trends

Employment trend will go from bad to worse

Will welfare reform weather the storm?

Unemployment benefits fall short

Imbalances in income growth

Job growth in manufacturing

The budget surplus: now you don’t see it… then you do

On net, the economy is in recession

Increasing Alaskan oil just a drop in bucket

Recent productivity growth no cause for relief

Unemployment insurance during a downturn

Hungry in America

Not making ends meet

Family budgets and the poverty line

Family hardships suffered by recent welfare recipients

The college-attendance gap

The economy and greenhouse gas reduction

Decline in labor force may mask higher unemployment rate

Hardships suffered by welfare families

Interest rates—the long and the short of it

Slow growth leads to higher unemployment

Corporate welfare for the oil industry

The changing face of temp work

Making sense of Medicare projections

Longer life for Medicare