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Working Economics Blog
Posted December 17, 2012 at 3:28 pm

What we read today

Here’s a sampling of links that EPI’s research team found insightful today:

  • “A ‘fiscal cliff’ deal is near: Here are the details” (Wonkblog)
  • “Conservatives complain Sandy bill includes millions in unrelated spending” (On The Money)
  • “Assimilated by the Peterson Borg” (Paul Krugman)
  • “Black jobless rate is twice that of whites” (Washington Post)
  • “The Great Manufacturing Skill-Shift Labor Shortage: Hard to See” (Employment Policy Research Network)
  • “A Giant Statistical Round-up of the Income Inequality Crisis in 16 Charts” (The Atlantic)
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