The Chicago Fed, along with the Cleveland Fed, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, and the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, held a conference on October 8-9, 2009, to explore the ongoing adjustments of the automotive work force and its communities. This article summarizes panels evaluating workforce programs.
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In an opinion today, the Missouri Supreme Court established two new legal precedents-one dealing with juror misconduct inside the jury room and another that established the public-policy exception to the at-will employment rule. The court in Michelle Fleshner v. Pepose Vision Institute said that instances where juror misconduct is alleged inside the jury room, an evidentiary hearing should be held to determine whether the misconduct occurred.
New numbers show women are beginning to join the recovery after months of lagging behind men in job growth. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to an Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the January employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women's employment now appears to be rising and the past three months saw equal job growth for men and women (206,000 for each). This is good news for women since their job growth has substantially lagged behind men's for most of the recovery.
A college degree doesn't go quite as far in Colorado Springs as it does in many other metropolitan areas, a new report from the Brookings Institution shows. The report from the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit policy institute looked at employment patterns in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Broadly speaking, it demonstrates what's become conventional wisdom: College-educated workers have a far lower unemployment rate than lower-educated workers, particularly those with less than a high school diploma, said Alan Berube, research director at Brookings.
Living wage advocacy has its downsides. According to the Employment Policies Institute (a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that studies public policy issues concerning employment growth), critical flaws exist in the Living Wage Campaign and in living wage movements in general. EPI's position reflects the prevailing criticism: increases in statutory wage minimums will end up costing jobs. Critics maintain that numbers used in calculating living wage levels are misleading, as they fail to take into account that many low-wage families do not exist on a single income, and that many minimum wage workers are not household income providers. Critics also say that living wage ordinances will artificially inflate unskilled workers, not only tying the hands of business but ultimately costing th...
Three years ago, the author wrote an article for this journal about the under-realized economic potential that women hold for South Carolina. At that time, the Alliance for Women, founded as a partnership between Columbia College and the Commission on Women, had just received the results of an economic impact study requested from the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. There is certainly ample room for progress. Since the 2006 article, women in South Carolina have lost ground or remained stagnant in the employment and earning composite index, according to rankings compiled by the Institute for Women's Policy Research. The Alliance is working to increase business ownership for women, especially in rural areas and underserved populations, by mapping economic assets and...
State data strongly suggest Marcellus shale natural gas drilling's benefits are real and growing. To sustain that momentum and maximize benefits, the industry must keep extracting gas safely. With 729 wells drilled since 2007, the industry remains in its infancy in the seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. But it best explains positive employment, sales-tax and taxable-income trends, according to the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
Demographic Projections for 2015 Indicate Potential Problems for Region in Employment, Educational Attainment, and Civic Participation The Public Policy Institute of California is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research on major economic, social, and political issues.
Mr. [Bush] likes to say, "America's economy is strong and getting stronger." He recently boasted, "Since May 2003 we have seen the economy grow at its fastest pace in nearly 20 years." He predicted that prosperity would soon "reach every corner of America. In all recessions, the least educated have suffered disproportionately," the institute said in a report. "However, the current recession and weak recovery are unique in the extent to which workers with substantial education are also economic victims." A joint study released last week by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that "actual employment levels in recent years fallen far below administration forecasts" and that "it is quite unlikely that the administration's [current] target w...
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