October 28, 2011
Five new labor market research reports were released this week and last week – one report discusses paid sick days while the rest focus on unemployment in the U.S.
Center for American Progress
Creating Unemployment: How Congressional Budget Decisions Are Putting Americans out of Work and Increasing the Risk of a Second Recession
Scott Lilly
Demos
State of Young America
Joint Publication by Demos and Young Invincibles
Employment Policy Research Network
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Jesse Rothstein
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Denver Paid Sick Days Would Promote Children’s School Success
Sarah Towne, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Kevin Miller, Ph.D., and Barbara Gault, Ph.D.
National Employment Law Project
What Is Causing Record-High Teen Unemployment? Range of Economic Factors Drives High Teen Unemployment, But Minimum Wage Not One of Them
Anne Thompson