I heard a couple of talkers on business news and talk radio note that government employment had exceeded manufacturing employment in the United States. When I looked into it, I found the origin of this meme at a blogpost of Fabius Maximus entitled America passes a milestone!, with interesting charts and analysis. The [...]

“What are the applied implications of our findings? In the work area we suggest that a balance between hours of work, social time and leisure will produce the highest well-being, whereas even work that is enjoyable will produce less well-being if carried out for too many hours. Conversely, it would be an error to assume [...]

Strong demand for communications equipment, machinery and fabricated metal led an upbeat durable goods report for April. Overall orders jumped by 1.9%.
Most analysts were wrong and had expected only a rise of 0.4%.
The bounce in new orders was broad but was led by communication equipment which alone was up 6.9 percent. Significant new [...]

William McGurn wrote an article entitled “New Jersey Is the Perfect Bad Example” in the December 30 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal. (http://tinyurl.com/94y8ll) It’s all good, but the really arresting part was this:
From 2000 to 2007, says the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, the government added 54,800 jobs. To put [...]

I grew up in Michigan, and like thousands of other young people from Michigan I now live in Chicago. Everywhere you go in this city you meet Michigan refugees, people who have realized that their future is not in Michigan. I look forward to the formation of an ethnic enclave, like Chinatown, [...]

Unscheduled staff absence due to illness or other reasons can be very costly for employers, official statistics and survey data reveal. In the UK it was reported by the Health and Safety Commission that 36 million days of work were lost due to sickness absence in 2006 and 2007, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel [...]

In an op-ed piece of October 17’s New York Times world-famous entrepreneur and financier Warren Buffet urged American investors to return to the stock market and bet on the long term future success of the United States. “Buy American,” Buffett’s headline reads. “I am.”
The essay was a vote of confidence from a successful guy at [...]

The current financial crisis in the U.S. is hitting everyone hard, perhaps not least the older population. Many in this age group will have taken early retirement in recent years and may now be starting to feel the pinch due to unexpected price rises. Some of these seniors, along with others who just miss the [...]

On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average - the bluest of Wall Street’s blue chips - lost 4.4% in a single day. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been “seized” by the government. Oil continues to drop while gas prices rise. Inflation runs high while jobless claims continue to soar and gold falters. What a [...]

According to a national study by researchers at Cornell University, only 37.7% of people with disabilities in the U.S. population were employed in 2006, compared with 79.7 percent of people without disabilities. Moreover, surveys have consistently shown the average annual earnings of employed people with disabilities to be significantly lower than those for the non-disabled [...]