Nick Buffie graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from Wesleyan University. His main areas of interest include economic inequality, depressions, and equality of opportunity. Much of his research focuses on unemployment, healthcare reform, tax policy, labor policy, the public budget, and regulation of the financial sector. Nick has previously worked at Economic Policy Institute, the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, and the U.S. House of Representatives.
This past January, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economist Nicholas Eberstadt gave an interesting presentation on his book Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis. In the prese...
In October of 2009, the national unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent; as of December 2016, it was down to 4.7 percent. The Federal Reserve Board voted last month to raise interest rate...
In 2012, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously commented that 47 percent of Americans were “dependent on government” because they didn’t pay any federal income taxes. He ...
Workers in the United States trail other high-income countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of work-life balance. The U.S. tops the list i...
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its newest jobs report a little over three weeks ago, economic forecasters and analysts received some welcome news: the unemployment rate had ...
This month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report. The new numbers were mostly positive, with employers reporting net job growth of 151,000 for the month.
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest jobs figures for the month of April. The unemployment rate and the number of jobs created will likely be the major focuses of...
One of the primary explanations we’ve heard for today’s low employment rate is that workers don’t have the right skills to land jobs in today’s economy. This line of thinking is often emp...
