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Mon, 2013-07-29 15:34 — mdmcdonald
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Seattle’s Minimum Wage Is Now $15 an Hour: Is That a Good Idea?

Sat, 2014-06-14 22:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

brookings.edu - by Gary Burtless - June 9, 2014

The Seattle city council voted to push up the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. If the wage hike is fully implemented, it will guarantee Seattle’s workers the nation’s highest minimum wage. . .

. . . However, I am more cautious about the wisdom of raising a single city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour when nearby jurisdictions leave their minimum wages unchanged.

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Ask the Headhunter: Why America's Employment System is So Broken

Thu, 2013-10-24 22:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

     

The job board model of hiring symbolizes the employment system's greater problems. Photo by Bubaone/iStock Vendors via Getty Images.

pbs.org - by Nick Corcodilos - August 27, 2013

A recent column, "Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?", triggered good dialogue on this blog and in lots of other media outlets about how companies recruit and hire people. Job seekers rightly criticized middlemen like LinkedIn, CareerBuilder and other database-driven job boards for mindless automation that does virtually nothing to help make good matches between employers and job seekers. In fact, the statistics I presented in the article strongly suggest these middlemen make it harder.

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U.S. Government Shuts Down in Budget Impasse

Tue, 2013-10-01 11:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

A National Park Service police guarded The Lincoln Memorial as signs were put up explaining government shutdown, on Tuesday.

nytimes.com - by michael D. Shear - October 1, 2013

WASHINGTON — The vast machinery of the federal government began grinding to a halt Tuesday morning just hours after weary lawmakers gave up hope of passing a budget in the face of Republican attacks on President Obama’s health care law.

For the first time in 17 years, Congress failed Monday night to agree on a new budget and refused to extend the current one. Without the authority to spend money, the executive branch on Tuesday morning started the process of temporarily mothballing facilities and suspending the many services the government provides.

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Stranded by Sprawl

Sun, 2013-08-04 21:24 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Barry Bloom

nytimes.com - July 28th, 2013 - Paul Krugman

Detroit is a symbol of the old economy’s decline. It’s not just the derelict center; the metropolitan area as a whole lost population between 2000 and 2010, the worst performance among major cities. Atlanta, by contrast, epitomizes the rise of the Sun Belt; it gained more than a million people over the same period, roughly matching the performance of Dallas and Houston without the extra boost from oil.

Yet in one important respect booming Atlanta looks just like Detroit gone bust: both are places where the American dream seems to be dying, where the children of the poor have great difficulty climbing the economic ladder.

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