For the Young: It's Still a Jobless Recovery

With the release of new economic data Friday, there's hope the jobless rate is finally falling. But for recent grads: there's been little progress. Today’s big news is that the unemployment rate is trending in a positive direction with the average rate having fallen below 9%. For recent …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Friday March 4, 2011

GOP Budget Cuts Won't Kill This Recovery

Today’s positive jobs report is good news for Obama, but the numbers also debunk his claim that cutting government jobs could harm the recovery. Today’s positive jobs report -- an 8.9 percent unemployment rate (lowest in 18 months) -- is good news for President Obama however one happens to look …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Friday March 4, 2011

To Save a Generation

Today's job report brings good-ish news, but it will still be months before we hit full employment. For young people that could mean a lost half-decade of life. Bruce Bartlett's excellent column today offers another glimpse of the economic path not taken by the GOP: instead of pressing for …

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Written by David Frum on Friday March 4, 2011