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Thinking about the March jobs report
By James Pethokoukis During the worst of the pandemic — especially during the shutdown and the months soon afterward — there was a lot of buzz
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‘We need people. Period.’ My Q&A with Ron Hetrick, part I
It is no secret that we are in the midst of a labor shortage, but as I have written recently, how exactly the shortage is accounted for is contested.
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Immigrants help drive the American digital economy. But they also help keep older folks out of nursing homes
By James Pethokoukis When confronted with the drawbridge-up politics of immigration restriction, I have frequently noted the importance of global
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Why I would vote for ‘Nomadland’ as Best Picture
By James Pethokoukis Do 71 percent of workers at the Amazon warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama, misunderstand what’s in their best economic
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‘What is a class act?’ for $1000
When we think about the reentry of the formerly incarcerated into society, we spend time thinking about housing, living, and employment, but we
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How the US economy can counter its demographic headwind
By James Pethokoukis The excellent 2016 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon — a book I
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How the US economy can counter its demographic headwind
The excellent 2016 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon — a book I frequently write about
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Why inflation might not be subdued forever
At the end of last year, Congress passed and President Trump signed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. Of course, that was hardly the first fiscal
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Why inflation might not be subdued forever
By James Pethokoukis At the end of last year, Congress passed and President Trump signed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. Of course, that was
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December’s jobs report and where we go from here
Last week, the Department of Labor released the final employment report of the Trump administration, and the news there, much like all the news these
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Health aides have had our back — will we have theirs?
A recent COVID outbreak in Canada pointed to a problem that also exists in America. Two women in an Ottawa homeless shelter tested positive for
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The appalling (and deadly) COVID empathy gap
We’ve seen lots of heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the doctors and nurses working arduous, non-stop shifts caring for sick patients to
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Helping moms get back to work
At the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19’s unequal impacts on American society showed up as higher severe illness and death rates among racial
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The damage we cause when we close down schools — it’s worse than you think
The coronavirus pandemic is worsening again, and so there’s again a debate over shutting down the American economy. A COVID-19 adviser to Joe Biden
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No one can make us care — but we should
We’re settling in for the long haul of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, unfortunately, some of the early, crisis-driven solidarity is beginning to wear