It hasn’t been an upbeat start to 2010.
A blog post on NPR this morning pointed out that while the December jobless rate was higher than economists anticipated, it would have been EVEN HIGHER if those who’d dropped out of the market all together had been counted. And talk of a new recession for 2010 was [...]
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Over at EconomyBeat, Jon’s put together a list of underperforming posts for the year. I’m a little tired of this whole ‘glass half empty’ thing, so while the top performing posts aren’t all good news (how could they be?), here’s a quick glimpse at some popular economy stories and projects from public media in 2009. [...]
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Last night on the NewsHour, Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation explained the thinking behind mapping different types of communities and how looking at location and context together create a deeper picture of what the American economy looks like.
“But it’s more than that, because, when you break the counties out into these types, as we [...]
NewsHour’s David Brooks and Mark Shields discuss President Obama’s speech on health care reform and what impact it will have on Congress.
With the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, who will pick up for the Democrats where Kennedy left off in terms of the health care debate and other key economic issues?
Conventional wisdom (and the stock market) finds that Kennedy’s absence from the Senate floor will be a blow to the health care debate, but this NPR [...]
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