Bob Collins
The more Jack Welch talked about his unemployment rate conspiracy, the sillier he looked.
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Tag: Economy
Paul Tosto
No doubt that people in their 20s and 30s don’t view home ownership like the generations before them — as the symbol of making it in middle class America.
Two charts offer a sobering view on just how historically bad the economy’s been and continues to be.
Farewell to the Coke bottle
Is there economic diversity where we live? A new study questions why economic segregation is increasing.
It’s hard to remember but the economic recovery began officially three years ago. While it’s a positive that the most recent data show Minnesota adding jobs, those numbers mask at least one seriously troubling trend: The number of Minnesotans out of work for more than a year has skyrocketed during the “recovery.” According to the Read more →
It’s quite a day. The market’s tanking because it’s expensive for Spain to borrow. The New York Times is launching a new project digging into middle class decline. It’s only a short stroll, then, to some grim, newly published data showing many of the folks near retirement have little savings beyond Social Security. The Schwartz Read more →
Death of the small-town grocery store