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The changing demographics of business ownership
Gaps in business ownership have shrunk with a rise in Black and Hispanic entrepreneurship in recent years.
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Event recap—Securing the safety net for working-age adults
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The safety net should work for working-age adults
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The austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits
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The Problem with Men: A Look at Long-Term Employment Trends
November’s weaker-than-expected jobs numbers offer new evidence that little headway has been made at reducing the pool of the unemployed. Michael Greenstone an…
The Great Recession’s Toll on Long-Term Unemployment
The October employment numbers, released today by the Labor Department, show tentative progress toward recovery. The U.S. economy is creating jobs for the firs…
Bringing Jobs to People: How Federal Policy Can Target Job Creation for Economically Distressed Areas
This paper proposes three solutions to bring jobs to distressed areas: customized job training programs for businesses and employees, advice and consulting ser…
Retraining Displaced Workers
Robert LaLonde of the University of Chicago and Daniel Sullivan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggest that retraining through our nation’s community c…
New Challenges for a Nationwide Recovery
Today’s release of September’s jobs numbers confirms what we all know: too many American workers remain unemployed. As the government reported, the U.S. econom…
The Long Road Back to Full Employment: How the Great Recession Compares to Previous U.S. Recessions
As expected, July’s employment numbers suggest that the road to recovery will be long. The economy as a whole lost 131,000 jobs as layoffs of temporary Census …
June’s Employment Numbers Highlight America’s Increasingly Distressed Communities
June’s employment numbers highlight that our economic recovery is not yet on solid footing. An analysis by The Hamilton Project digs into the regional distribu…
Evidence from May’s Employment Numbers on the Benefits of Education
May employment numbers, released by the Labor Department today, demonstrate continued momentum behind our nation’s economic recovery. With 431,000 new jobs, bu…
