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Class of 2018: High school edition
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In 14 states and DC, the African American unemployment rate is at least twice the white unemployment rate: The highest African American unemployment rate is in the District of Columbia at 12.9 percent, while the highest white unemployment rate is in West Virginia at 5.2 percent
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How big is AI-related employment? Not that big at all—despite what Stanford’s AI Index Annual Report tries to claim
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Class of 2018: High school edition
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The likely economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA): Higher incomes for the top, no discernible effect on wage growth for typical American workers
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Signs of stronger wage growth that will eventually improve Americans’ livings standards
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In 14 states and DC, the African American unemployment rate is at least twice the white unemployment rate: The highest African American unemployment rate is in the District of Columbia at 12.9 percent, while the highest white unemployment rate is in West Virginia at 5.2 percent
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Uber and the labor market: Uber drivers’ compensation, wages, and the scale of Uber and the gig economy
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Class of 2018: College edition
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Minnesota and Wisconsin had similar job growth trajectories leading up to the Great Recession, but not after it
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As Wisconsin’s and Minnesota’s lawmakers took divergent paths, so did their economies: Since 2010, Minnesota’s economy has performed far better for working families than Wisconsin’s
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Unemployment rate hits new low for the recovery, but for the wrong reasons
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Stronger wage growth as labor market slack continues to decline
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How do our job creation recommendations stack up against a job guarantee?
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Swings in the weather lead to swings in employment
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Multiple measures indicate the presence of labor market slack
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The fuzzy line between “unemployed” and “not in the labor force” and what it means for job creation strategies and the Federal Reserve
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Recommendations for creating jobs and economic security in the U.S.: Making sense of debates about full employment, public investment, and public job creation
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Estimates of jobs lost and economic harm done by steel and aluminum tariffs are wildly exaggerated
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Early 2018 data looks to follow 2017 trends
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: Putting wage growth in perspective
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Testimony prepared for the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, U.S. House of Representatives: For a hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America—Long-Term Funding for Highways and Transit Programs”
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50 years after the Kerner Commission: African Americans are better off in many ways but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality
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Working harder or finding it harder to work: Demographic trends in annual work hours show an increasingly fractured workforce
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African American and Hispanic unemployment rates are higher than white unemployment rates in every state at the end of 2017
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EPI responds to Amazon’s claims that their fulfillment centers raise local employment
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The bottom line on Trump and the economy: We’re not in good hands
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January’s jobs report shows hopeful signs, but in line with long term trends
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What to Watch on Jobs Day: How the Trump administration stacks up against an economy on autopilot
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Unfulfilled promises: Amazon fulfillment centers do not generate broad-based employment growth
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Trump must act now to protect U.S. steel and aluminum: Administration delays have already heightened the import crisis for tens of thousands of steel and aluminum industry workers