Wall Street Journal posted data from the venerable Center on Education and the Workforce on earnings and unemployment by college major. There is a relative floor at $40,000 with a wide variation of unemployment (poor clinical psychology). There is a negative correlation between earnings and unemployment rate, but it might be too presumptuous to presume […]
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Recessionomics: Unemployment Rates
From A Historical Look at the Labor Market During Recessions. (via Cafe Hayek via Economist’s View)
Update on Unemployment
Iowa finally received some good news regarding unemployment.
Iowa Unemployment: Exploring the Denominator
Iowa’s unemployment edged up to 6.7 percent in November from October’s 6.6 percent. The increase wasn’t statistically significant, so for practicality we can say it remained flat. However, the unemployment level isn’t too disconcerting, especially since Iowa is relatively low compared to other states. Iowa’s civilian labor force declined for the third straight month. In […]
Iowa Economy: Manufacturing Jobs in Iowa
Here mostly as a reminder. Source: Des Moines Register.