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Trends in State and Local Government Employment
The government workforce is crucial to our daily lives and is an integral part of the US economy.
How does Travel Nurse Pay Compare to Permanent Staff Nurses?
Hospitals are increasingly operating like financial institutions without regard to pay and conditions of their staff when the budgets get tight.
Report
Measuring Care Provision in the United States: Resources, Shortfalls, and Possible Improvements
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged conventional thinking, dramatizing the essential contributions that “care infrastructure” can make to economic well-being.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Owning Up to Mistakes and Pandemic Deaths
It would be a huge step forward for both public health and U.S. foreign policy if we could begin down the road of freely sharing health care technology rather than trying to bottle it up so that a small number of people can get very rich.
Data Bytes
May Jobs Preview: What to Expect in the May Jobs Report
We have seen substantial upward revisions to wage data in recent months. Average hourly earnings in February were originally reported as $33.09. After two revisions, they are now reported at $33.11. The March wage figure was originally reported at $33.18. With the April revision, it stood at $33.20.
Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Joe Biden Has Given Us the Greatest Economy Ever
We now have the greatest economy ever. I’m saying that because President Biden won’t and everyone knows damn well that if Donald Trump was in the White House, and we had the same economic situation, he would be boasting about the greatest economy ever all the time.
Children and Youth Nearly Twice as Likely to Die in the South as in New England
The mortality rate for children and youth in the Southeastern This article uses Bureau of Economic Analysis regional definitions.
Article
End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations is Shortsighted and Premature
In January 2023, the Biden administration announced its plans to end two COVID-19-related emergency declarations — a “public health emergency” declaration and a “national emergency” declaration — on May 11, 2023.
Article
Beyond the Headline Numbers in the Jobs Report: Disability and Employment
Just over 10 million working-age disabled people were out of the labor force in the last quarter of 2022 — roughly the same as the number who were out of the labor force in 2018 and 2019.