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May 11, 2023
NBC News: Covid transformed the U.S. labor market, and it isn’t done yet
“‘Spending is back, demand for labor is back, but we have a smaller labor force,’ said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow at …
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April 12, 2023
Wall Street Journal: Crosscurrents hide a rapidly cooling labor market
“Second, the U.S. population is 1.4 million people smaller and the labor force 900,000 smaller than would have been expected in 2019 because of deaths from Cov…
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April 10, 2023
CNN: The Fed could easily drive Black unemployment much higher than the overall jobless rate
“Still, a robust labor market isn’t a permanent solution to bridging employment disparities, even if the Fed does keep rates lower, says Wendy Edelberg, direct…
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March 3, 2023
Marketplace: What the monthly jobs report can — and can’t — tell us about the labor market
“’The employment report gives us information from two totally different points of view. We have information in the employment report from what we call establis…
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February 11, 2023
The New Yorker: Does the president have control over inflation?
“Wendy Edelberg, the director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, agreed. ‘It’s true, the American Rescue Pl…
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February 10, 2023
Marketplace: March jobs report shows more signs of cooling labor market
“In a labor market with lots of job openings and not a lot of job seekers, employers have to raise pay. That’s great for individual workers, but not always gre…
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October 27, 2022
Democrats aren’t saying much about reducing poverty and unemployment. Why?
“Studies by the Census Bureau and by poverty expert Robert Greenstein have found that inclusive and targeted programs have both been important in reducing hard…
July 13, 2021
Removing Policy Obstacles to Competitive Labor Markets
Ryan Nunn
In a new blog, Ryan Nunn outlines reforms to occupational licensing and non-compete contracts that would boost labor market competition and benefit workers.