Daily Policy Digest
Economic Issues
| Wanted: Blue-Collar Workers Since 2009, the number of job openings in manufacturing has been rising, with average annual earnings of $73,000, well above the average earnings in education, health services and many other fields... |
| Rewarding Altruism? Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards... |
| Fine-Tuning the Perfect Employee U.S. executives consider lack of skilled workers one of the greatest risks their companies face in 2012, second only to loss of customers... |
| Megapolitan Areas Compete Globally By 2040, researchers predict there will be 10 distinct clusters composed of 23 "megapolitan" areas in the contiguous 48 states -- regions that encompass cities and counties linked through manmade and natural connections... |
| Recipe for Middle-Class Jobs An economic-development consultancy estimates that Austin added 50,000 "middle-skill" positions in the past decade, running contrary to national trends... |
| Joblessness and Regulation: The "Mass Layoff" Fallacy Twenty-two percent of employers surveyed in a recent Gallup poll stated that government regulation was their primary concern when it comes to employment... |
| The Do-It-Yourself American Dream Among those that are attempting to create a financial safety net, the percentage relying on their employer or the government has reached its lowest point with the Gen Y generation... |
| Lessons for United States from Canada's "Basket Case" Moment The similarities between Canada's situation and America's fiscal house today ought to make Canada's experience instructional... |
| Is There a Retirement Crisis? The number of senior citizens will more than double between now and 2050, from 40 million to 89 million... |
| What's Behind the Dramatic Decline in Youth Employment? Since the start of the most recent recession, the employment-population rate for high school-age youth has fallen from around 23 percent to around 15 percent... |
