Jobs Data Reflects Mostly Re-Hiring from Temporary Layoff

In a much-anticipated jobs report, the Department of Labor released data today showing continued hiring in July despite ...

Republican deficit hawks come off endangered species list

  “Doing anything about the deficit and debt is always a heavy lift, and it gets even heavier when ...

Guest View: The looming battle over pandemic unemployment insurance

Coronavirus slams Social Security trust fund, speeds depletion

“If we were to suffer a recession identical to the Great Recession again, Social Security’s trust fund would ...

New Paper Released by The Concord Coalition and the Global Aging Institute: "The Case for Longer Work Lives"

Media Contact: Tyler Sweeney E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: (603) 325-8556WASHINGTON – A new paper jointly released by The Concord Coalition and ...

Double Dose of Economic Data

The economic picture painted by a double dose of economic statistics released Thursday reveals a US economy struggling ...

Comparing Major Provisions of the House and Senate Pandemic Relief Packages

More than two months after House Democrats passed their version of the next installment of pandemic relief for ...

Health Coverage for All: What Does that Mean and What are the Implications?

On July 29, more than 100 people participated in a Zoom webinar on the topic of “health coverage ...

Latest Jobless Claims Reverse Downward Trend

The Labor Department released new data today on initial unemployment claims by laid-off workers. For the week ending July 18, new claims ...

Bipartisan Panel Pans Payroll Tax Cut

This week, I hosted an informal online conversation with think-tank scholars Brian Riedl of the right-leaning Manhattan Institute ...

COVID-19 Pushes 2020 Deficit to $2.7 Trillion Through June

In its Monthly Budget Review for June 2020, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Wednesday, July 8, that the ...

Note to Congress: Look Behind the Jobs Data

The Labor Department released new data today on initial unemployment claims by laid-off workers. For the week ending ...