Occupation: Chief Economist And Economic Policy Adviser Birth: 1955
The black unemployment rate has to be twice that of the white rate in the US. If the national unemployment rate were 6.8 percent, everyone would be f….
The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity..
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers..
Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, abo….
The government should be actively enforcing the high road..
With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living s….
What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually ….
Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the le….
Barack Obama is talking about cutting taxes. On net, he is a tax cutter. But the difference between Obama and John McCain is that Obama is raising so….
It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at th….
The full employment situation reinforces itself..