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Biz Buzz: The Lodge takes on a new name

...bowling alley or on-site Aveda spa. For dining, Midwest Living suggests the wild-rice walleye cakes. The Economic Policy Institute reported new data recently released shows a job-seekers ration was 3.7 to 1 in April compared to 3.4 to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-06-29/biz-buzz-lodge-takes-new-name
Business
Redistributing wealth upward

...wealthiest 10 percent received 33 percent of the nation's personal income. In 2007, they received 50 percent, Economic Policy Institute data show.If that's not redistribution, I don't know what is.The problem is not just that everyone...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-09-26/redistributing-weal
Guest Columns
Brainerd jobless rate rises

...consideration those from the labor force who have given up looking for work after unsuccessful searches. The nonprofit Economic Policy Institute reports the ratio of unemployed workers to job openings has been above 4-to-1 for nearly three years "meaning...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-01-24/brainerd-jobless-rate-rises
News
'New' Bar Harbor expected to reopen in early 2012

...higher than traditional measures suggest, the Economic Policy Institute recently reported in a briefing paper titled...Retirement." The latest job-seekers ratio from the Economic Policy Institute shows the ratio of unemployed workers to job...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2011-11-18/new-bar-harbor-expected-reopen-e
Business
Job trends suggest career track options

...What happens in London, it can affect our businesses. It breeds more uncertainty here."In July, the Economic Policy Institute reported the job seekers ratio - the number of unemployed workers compared to job openings - has been more...

http://brainerddispatch.com/extra/2011-09-03/job-trends-suggest-career-track-opt
Extra
WTO woes

...there's general acknowledgement that further globalization is inevitable. As Jeff Faux, the head of the liberal Economic Policy Institute put it the other day, ''We don't doubt that the game has changed and that trade will continue to expand...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/120699/opi_1206990015.shtml
Opinion
Giovanni's Pizza looks to future with new partnership

...raise if the federal minimum wage were raised from $5.15 to $6.65 an hour, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. The Minnesota Budget Project, an initiative of the Minnesota Council of nonprofits, released the information...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/021701/bus_0217010056.shtml
Business
Retirement plans take hit in economic downturn, increasing worries for many aging workers

...wealth since World War II, even after correcting for inflation, said Christian Weller, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Household wealth dropped $2.3 trillion, or 8 percent, between the end of 1999 and the end...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/073101/nne_0731010018.shtml
News
The congressional health club

...struggle to find jobs in what Washington euphemistically calls an "economic downturn." A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute found that a family earning twice the poverty limit of $17,463 would still fall below any definition of a...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081001/opi_0810010033.shtml
Opinion
Many social safety nets couldn't hold recession

...Much of the country isn't ready to weather a downturn," said Jeffrey B. Wenger, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-backed Washington think tank. Problems range across the spectrum of government programs Americans...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/100101/nne_1001010034.shtml
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