...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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