…schools, churches, employment agencies, sheriff’s offices and town halls. In the end, the reporting team interviewed more than 100 migrant workers. They learned about how regional auto supply chains worked…
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…federal, local or state officials or other government workers across all 94 federal court districts in the U.S. from 2003 to 2019. They also look at newspaper employment numbers and…
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…the committee analyzes also includes “real personal income less transfers, nonfarm payroll employment, real personal consumption expenditures, wholesale-retail sales adjusted for price changes, employment as measured by the household survey,…
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…Jeannette Wicks-Lim. The paper, “Revising the Racial Wage Gap Among Men in the United States: The Role of Nonemployment, Underemployment, and Incarceration,” is based on an analysis of nearly three…
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…sizes. Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis suggests the anecdotes in the Beige Book accurately reflect what’s happening with employment and inflation the U.S. economy. After performing…
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…and mental health of adults and children. “There’s a lack of future for children and families,” she said. “There’s no employment, and if you graduate with a degree, there’s no…
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…helpful resources: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases employment data monthly. These reports can help journalists gauge how retail jobs are impacted by the winter shopping season. The National…
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…controlling for several variables: prisoners and police per 1,000 residents, state personal income per capita, welfare assistance, unemployment rates, poverty rates and beer shipments. “There has been this literature that…
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…the viral infection and the indirect effect on mental health due to posttraumatic stress, social isolation, and economic factors, such as loss of employment,” they write. What’s missing: “No clear…
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…employment and inflation in the U.S. economy. After performing a simple textual analysis of every Beige Book from January 2000 to April 2022, the authors find, for example, that mentions…
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