Supply and Demand (in that order)

President Obama recently said , First of all, I don't put people on food stamps. People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, ...

Copyright, The New York Times Company Thanks to the recession, and changes in program rules, a large fraction of households receive governme...

My blog entry today explains how the number of SNAP households -- Washingtonspeak for number of families receiving food stamps from the fed...

Copyright, The New York Times Company One myth about the surge in federal government spending over the last four years is that it was an aut...

Copyright, The New York Times Company While Americans discuss the duration of unemployment benefits in terms of weeks, Europeans discuss the...

Copyright, The New York Times Company A possible compromise between Democrats who want to leave the unemployment compensation system unchang...

Copyright, The New York Times Company While Congress has been debating whether to cut the duration of unemployment benefits, perhaps the lar...

A number of bloggers have recently discovered real wages as a labor market indicator. They are at least 3 years late to the party. Three ...

Copyright, The New York Times Company The propensity of unemployed people to receive unemployment benefits reached historical highs after th...

Copyright, The New York Times Company The recession and lack of recovery have often been characterized as a lack of hiring, rather than an ...