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The U.S. Labor Force: Running Away from Metros With High Costs of Living

In my prior post I noted that the labor force of New York City, which had been soaring for...

That’s what lobbyists for the telecommunication companies promised in the mid-1990s, in the run up to the Telecommunications Act...

Who will you be voting against this November? That’s really what it comes down to, doesn’t it? The fact...

The Census Bureau’s annual education finance data was released for FY 2014 on Friday June 11. The data shows...

I don’t usually comment on other people’s reporting, but I couldn’t let a Bloomberg News report of a 1970s...

Here is food for thought. In 1978 I earned the minimum wage: $2.65 per hour. Adjusted for inflation that...

The Federal Reserve Z1 data on U.S. public and private debt was released for 2015 on March 10… http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/...

The Romney Broadside on Trump will last for a few news cycles and that’s about it for now. The...

Let’s start this post the way I ended the one before. Our population is getting older. Labor force participation...

Just based on the news, it would be easy to believe that not much had changed for the federal...