Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Obama Didn't Stop the Middle Class Free Fall Inflation-adjusted median income fell by 2.3 percent in 2010 (the last year for which official statistics are available) and dipped below $50,000 per year for the first time since 1996... |
| Measuring Labor Markets in Canada and the United States: 2012 Edition There is a stark divide between Canada -- average total unionization rate of 31.4 percent -- and the United States -- average total unionization rate of 13.3 percent... |
| The Surprising Ingredients of Swedish Success -- Free Markets and Social Cohesion A new paper demonstrates that Swedish economic success is a result of the free market and not the welfare state... |
| More Older Workers Making up Labor Force Nearly 1 in 5 Americans ages 65 and older are working or looking for jobs -- the highest in almost half a century... |
| Food Stamp Use Climbs to Record Food stamp use reached a record 46.7 million people in June... |
| The Next Great Tech Growth Cycle After the recession of the 1970s, many were convinced that technological innovation had been tapped out, but this was proven wrong by the 1980s... |
| How Do Spending Cuts Affect an Economic Recovery? Spending-based adjustments are followed by mild, short-lived recessions and in many cases no recession at all; yet tax-based adjustments create deep and prolonged recessions... |
| Education, Job Openings and Unemployment in Metropolitan America A new paper from the Brookings Institution aims to provide metro, state and national policy makers with a better sense of the specific problems facing metropolitan labor markets... |
| Understanding the Multifamily Mortgage Market Currently, multifamily rental housing accounts for 15 million, or 13 percent, of households and 43 percent of renters... |
| A Better Way to Track Unemployment The complement of the ratio between the employed and the working age population, called the not-employed rate, shows that 41.4 percent of the population was not-employed as of June 2012, says R. David Ranson, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
