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The primary cause of unemployment, says a survey a business owners, is poor sales. Concerns about regulations are a distant third. It’s not surprising that regulatory uncertainty seems to have such marginal economic effects. Regulations do impose burdens on businesses,…

Rapper J-Hustle videoed a six block line of people in Chicago standing in minus 8 wind chill weather waiting to get an application to work at Ford. And then Ford closed the doors early. The unemployment rate there and in…

The Economist explores how automation and technology is replacing jobs. Unlike previous eras when such disruptions did indeed create many new jobs, this time the robots and bots may be self-perpetuating. And the jobs they are replacing are ones previously…

USA Today Craigslist… is a portal into the misery of people who are struggling to find jobs. Posts from people who are desperate for work read like Haiku poems that detail hard times and fear. Meanwhile, D.C. continues to be…

The Oklahoman is not impressed with Obama’s jobs plan. Welfare for the rich, it seems to me. Washington is paying $2,571 per resident of three Oklahoma hamlets for broadband connections. These citizens (fewer than 600 altogether) won’t get the money…