Bruce Bartlett alerts me to the continuing economic downturn in the state.
Category Archives: employment
Kansas and Wisconsin Unemployment in Historical Perspective
Reader Bruce Hall asserts the two states aren’t doing too badly in terms of unemployment rates.
Assessing Industrial Policy in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Budget Project concludes “Costly Tax Credit has Done Little to Boost [manufacturing] Employment”.
Data Paranoia Watch: Employment Edition
Which one of these texts is drawn from a real article?
Thinking about Wages, Inflation and Productivity… and Capital’s Share
On the release of the Productivity and Costs release, the WSJ reports “Weak Productivity, Rising Wages Putting Pressure on U.S. Companies: Economists fret how trends may affect inflation and broader growth”.
Some Messages from the Employment Release
Employment growth is downgraded, according to several measures, and manufacturing employment is particularly hard hit.
Two Employment Goals: Kansas, Wisconsin
In Governor Brownback’s re-election campaign, he committed to 25,000 new jobs per year in his next term. This is reminiscent of Governor Walker’s August 2013 promise to create 250,000 new private sector jobs over the four years of his first term, by January 2015. How are things going?
“Kansas loses patience with Gov. Brownback’s tax cuts”
The experiment continues…
Manufacturing Sector Resilience…So Far
The employment release (see also [Duy/Economists View]) provided some interesting insights into how manufacturing has fared, in the wake of the appreciation of the dollar (and the slowdown in the world economy).
The U.S. is not in a recession
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that U.S. real GDP grew at a 0.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter. That’s a bad quarter to be sure, and real GDP is up only 1.8% from a year ago. That’s a weak year judged by the U.S. postwar average of 3.1%, but is not far from the 2.1% annual growth we’ve been averaging since 2009:Q3.
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