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Effective policies for job creation and stronger economic growthSeptember 2, 2011 EPI outlines 11 effective methods to stimulate significant job growth, such as repairing our crumbling schools, renewing the payroll tax cut, and investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. |
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Learn some startling statistics about the labor marketSeptember 2, 2011 As we approach Labor Day, learn some astonishing facts about today’s labor market. |
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Sustained high unemployment deeply impacts workers and families throughout the countryAugust 31, 2011 The nation’s long-term jobs crisis not only affects workers but deeply impacts the entire country through lost wages, income and wealth, as well as higher poverty. |
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Construction job losses hit immigrants the hardestAugust 11, 2011 The rise and dramatic collapse of the housing boom signaled the beginning of the Great Recession and displaced nearly three million construction workers, with foreign-born non-citizen males facing particularly steep job loss. |
As the nation prepares for Labor Day, EPI has assembled a list of facts that detail the current state of the country's labor market. Read More
EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey, Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities senior fellow, and Mary Filardo, Executive Director of the 21st Century School Fund, detail the benefits of fixing America’s crumbling schools while addressing the nation’s jobs crisis. Read More
September 2, 9:10am
“Though much attention is being paid to ‘zero job growth’ in August, the real news in today’s numbers is that job growth is worse than in recent months, and the nation continues to produce far fewer jobs than needed to meaningfully reduce the unemployment rate. In fact, in some ways the report was less than zero in that weekly hours fell, as did hourly earnings.” EPI labor economist Heidi Shierholz
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