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Monday, December 16, 2013

UC reaches tentative labor deal

UC reaches tentative labor deal
The University of California has reached a tentative labor agreement with three unions that together represent more than 12000 technical ...

 

Why Are Americans Staying Put?

Why Are Americans Staying Put?
Economic mobility and geographic mobility have been closely linked for much of American history, so economists find it troubling that migration rates have been in decline lately.

 

Raising the Minimum Wage: Old Shibboleths, New Evidence

Raising the Minimum Wage: Old Shibboleths, New Evidence
The evidence is clear that a higher minimum wage would reduce poverty, increase consumer spending and have scant impact on employment, an economist writes.

 

How Should We Solve the Government Pension-Fund Crisis?

James Surowiecki: How Should We Solve the ... - The New Yorker
'Tis the season for taking retirement benefits away from public workers. In Detroit, an emergency manager has steered the city into bankruptcy, in part to avoid its ...

 

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