New PPI research finds young people continued to be squeezed from the labor force in 2012 relative to people age 35 and over. More young…
Young educated Americans are finally rejoining the workforce. According to BLS statistics, the labor force participation of Americans age 18-34 with a Bachelor’s or Associate’s…
They defied the pundits: young people turned out to vote in numbers that rivaled their 2008 record. An estimated 23 million young people age 18-29…
On Sunday Mitt Romney told an Ohio crowd that he couldn’t understand why a “college kid” would vote for Obama. He said Obama was spending…
No one should be surprised that Mitt Romney turned in a strong debate performance last night. After a string of missed opportunities and self-inflicted wounds…
The latest Census figures show real earnings for young college grads fell again in 2011. This makes the sixth straight year of declining real earnings…
Are U.S. manufacturing jobs gone for good? Many so-called experts have mocked the Obama Administration’s latest trade action against China as being fundamentally useless, the…
Last week’s employment status report of America’s youth from the BLS shows the number of people aged 16-24 not in the labor force or enrolled…
It’s become conventional wisdom: when the economy falters, it’s because people aren’t spending. Give people money and they will spend their troubles away (and our…
Economists are constantly coming up with offbeat and fun economic indicators. We’ve seen the economy explained through hemlines, long-distance relationships and even the toughness of…