One of the persistent themes of the ongoing U.S. jobs market stagnation is the mismatch between what prospective workers have to offer, and what employers
The proposed middle-class tax cuts that limit income to $250,000 got editors at the Evansville Courier & Press wondering: How do you define middle class?
Looking for a new way to tackle the jobs story? Try a fresh look at the temporary employment market in your region. I find the
Last week a colleague of mine asked me which Twitter handles I follow for economic news. To answer his question and help you get a
Spencer Soper of the Allentown Morning Call exposed the working conditions at an Amazon.com warehouse last year, noting the intense heat and ambulances parked outside
For Tim Logan, being a successful economics reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch means taking important national economic issues and making them relevant at the local level. Logan
A new survey of financial journalists shows that as a whole, they are neutral at best and cautious on their outlook for the U.S. economy and
GOLD AWARD: Craig Harris, a reporter at The Arizona Republic, received the top gold award in the 2011 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business
The monthly update to the national unemployment rate — the Department of Labor’s employment situation report — is due out Friday. Among other things, it’s
Alabama’s new, tough immigration law has generated lots of headlines, but that didn’t deter Elizabeth Dwoskin of Bloomberg Businessweek from tackling the story. “At first,
Sometimes an eye-catching story might not, at first, appear to have a local angle — but it’s such a talker that you’ve just got to
It sort of got overlooked in the hubbub over Hurricane Irene and the ongoing coverage of regime change in Libya, but an interesting Bureau of
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