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• Unemployment data--January 2012 graph: unempl> 6mos. CBPP 2/12
• Analysis
  • "African Americans in particular saw an especially sharp decline in unemployment, with their overall rate falling by 2.2 percentage points to 13.6 percent, the lowest level since March of 2009....The unemployment rate for all men and women over age 20 is now the same at 7.7 percent, the first time they have been equal since the recession began in December, 2007. .... Ignoring Census hiring, this is the strongest three-month stretch since February to April of last year when job growth averaged 239,000 a month ....The January report is undoubtedly one of the best reports that we have seen since the recession began.....While this is markedly better than what we had been seeing, at this rate we would not get back to full employment until 2020." Baker, CEPR, 2/3/12

"it’s important to keep all this in context.  The U.S. labor market started 2012 with fewer jobs than it had 11 years ago in January 2001—a testament to both the enormity of the current labor market crisis as well as the very weak job growth of the 2000–07 business cycle. The jobs deficit is so large that even at January’s growth rate, it would still take until 2019 to get back to full employment.   We need reports this strong and stronger for the next several years to get back to a healthy labor market." See graphs Shierholz, EPI 2/3/12

"Today's jobs report is encouraging, but we should judge it against the overall sluggishness of the economic recovery and a persistently large jobs deficit that remains after 23 straight months of private-sector job creation. Payroll employment is still 5.6 million jobs short of where it was at the start of the Great Recession in December 2007...Current economic conditions justify continuing federal emergency UI at the levels in place last year. Reducing the number of weeks of federal benefits, as proposed in the House-passed bill of December, would take purchasing power out of the economy and weaken the recovery." Stone, CBPP 2/3/12

• State, Met. Area Employment and Unemployment Data, BLS, monthly
• Interactive map: Unemployment rates by state, BLS; also WSJ
• Interactive map: Job loss by state. EPI
• Geography of Recession chronological map of unemployment rates by county
• Who Has Benefitted from the Post-Great Recession Recovery? Sum &McLaughlin 7/11
• Jobs Missing in the Great Recession. 12/11
• Downturn Continues to Lower Union Membership, Zipperer, CEPR 1/11
• Long Road Ahead, Krugman blog, 1/11
• How Government spent your income taxes, National Priorities Project
• Unemployment Insurance Extension May Be Short-Lived, Bloom, WDL10/10
• International Unemployment Rates and Employment Indexes 2008-2009, BLS
• The Stagnating Labor Market Jayadev & Konczal, Roosevelt Institute 9/10
• The Good, the Bad and the ERGly, Stecker, NJPP 9/10
• How America Can Create Jobs, Andy Grove, Intel, BW 7/10
• SF Labor Council demands U.S. enforcement of treaties & laws ensuring Full Employment, Right to a Job & Union Rights, 3/10
• Jobs Crisis Fact Sheet, A.Turner, 3/10
• How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America, D.Peck,, Atlantic, 3/10
• Many highly profitable companies cut jobs in 2009, Orr, EPI 12/09
• "Generation Recession," Ratner, the Nation, 11/09
• The safety net and the recession, Mishel, EPI, 10/09
• The Great Recession of 2007-2009: PostWW II Record Impacts on Rising Unemployment and Underutilization Problems, Sum & al, 7/09
• Work-Sharing May Help Companies Avoid Layoffs, Greenhouse, NYT 6/09
• Work Sharing--an Alternative to Layoffs for Tough Times, Ridley, CLASP 3/09
• Welfare Aid Isn’t Growing as Economy Drops Off, NYT, 2/09
• Where Homes Are Cheaper Than Cars: Bankruptcy Weighs Heavily on Real Estate, Timiraos, WSJ 6/05
• Why labor law doesn't work for workers, Bacon [EFCA], 3/09
• Variations in Government Aid Across the Nation, NYT, 5/09
• Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, CEPR 3/09
• Interactive map: Unemployment rates by state
• Conference Board Employment Trends Index
• Median income rose as did poverty in 2007 2000s have been extremely weak for living standards of most households, Bernstein, EPI 8/08
• The medicare myth that refuses to die, Lorinc, Globe and Mail, 8/08
• Dr. Wall Street: How the American Health Care System Got So Sick, Brecher, 7/08
• Equality in Job Loss: Women Are Increasingly Vulnerable to Layoffs During
  Recessions, US Congress, JEC , 7/08
• Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments, Pollin & Wicks-Lim
• Woe is the American Worker, Waldman, Am. Prospect, 12/07
• What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession, Schmitt & Baker, 1/08
• Global Employment Trends 2011, ILO
• The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Job Quality in the United States over the Three Most Recent Business Cycles, Schmitt, CEPR, 11/07
• Typical families see income and earnings decline, Irons, EPI, 9/07
• Bridging the Gaps:A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States, 10/07
• No-Benefit Jobs Leave Parents Struggling, H. Boushey, Sojourners, S/O 07
• The 2007 Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work
• CEO pay: 364 times more than workers, 8/07
• Neither Free Nor Fair:The Subversion of Democracy Under NLRB Elections,7/07
• Americans' ambivalence about the economy, Mishel et al, 6/07
• Unemployment depresses immune function, Psychosom. Med. 9/07
• Making the Federal Minimum Wage a Living Wage , R. Pollin, 6/07
• A Tale of Two Time Periods for Low-Income Families, Bernstein, 6/07
• The Gender Pay Gap is the Smallest on Record—Not Necessarily Good News 9/06
• Jobs for All: The Key to Rebuilding after Katrina, Kochan, CAP
• Data--employment, earnings, family income, hours, prices, unionization
• The Bush Tax Cuts, 3/07
• 99 Percent... are Net Losers Under Bush Tax and Spending Policies 6/06
• The Middle Class on the Precipice, by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Mag.,J/F 06
• Who's Failing on Poverty? Anrig, TCF, 10/05
• What's wrong with the economy? Mishel & Eisenbrey, 12/05
• Without defense-related spending private sector would still be in a jobs hole 8/05
• Finding the better fit: Receiving unemployment insurance increases likelihood of re-employment with health insurance, Heather Boushey
• Ownership Society--Social Security Is Only the BeginningWray, Levy Inst.
• Operating Instructions [employer power]
• U.S. workers enjoy far fewer vacation days than Europeans, EPI, 8/05
• Injuries to All [workplace injuries]
• Undermining the Right to Organize: Employer Behavior During Union Representation Campaigns
• Whatever Happened to Private Pensions? C. R. Morris, TCF, 2/06
• The Larger Pension Question Looms . 10/05
• Whoops! There Goes Another Pension Plan M.W. Walsh, NY Times , 9/18/05
• Riding into the Sunset [retirement], Wm Greider, Nation, 6/05
• Productivity growth and profits far outpace compensation in current expansion, EPI. April 21, 2005
• "As Goes Wal-Mart," Beth Shulman 5/ 05
• Confronting New Realities on Pensions, Wasow, TCF, 5/05
• Corporate America Pulling Back Pension Safety Net, LA Times, 5/15//05
• Government Budget Calculator, CEPR
• The Permanent War Economy: Real Security or False Promise? Resource written by ministers for church bulletins. Feedback welcomed.
• The Late, Great Income Tax Max B. Sawicky, 4/15/ 2005
• Bankruptcy Bill blog, Prof. Elizabeth Warren et al
• Going Nowhere: Workers Wages since the Mid-1970s, TCF
• International comparisons: Beyond the U.S. model, EPI; Book chapter
• The Rise in Job Displacement, 1991-2004, Crisis in Manufacturing, CEPR, 8/04
• Middle-Class Tightrope, Jacob Hacker, August 2004
• Miltary Spending and Jobs: A Quiz
• The Job Market--Down and Out in White-Collar America, Fortune, June, 2003
• Special Report 4: The Permanent War Economy: Real Security or False Promise? by C. Bell, S. D. Collins, H. L. Ginsburg, and M. Malloy
• Job Deficits Deepen as Budget Deficits Explode, by Gregory DeFreitas
• Poison pill: Why the new reform bill will make Medicare's problems bigger--and even harder to fix, J. S. Hacker & T. R. Marmor, Boston Globe, December 7, 2003
• The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan, D. Baker, 1/06
• "Jobs for All": Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mathew Forstater 
• Innocent Fraud, by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Better than Money: Alternatives to GDP, Nordic New Network