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I am an emphatic tobacco control advocate. My mother-in-law and my father-in-law both died horribly and young of lung cancer. I yield to no one in my desire to tax the hell out of cigarettes, require aggressive warning labels, the...
When the September jobs report showed that unemployment had dropped to an unexpectedly low 7.8%, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch helped launch a new conspiracy theory when he tweeted: "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so...
A recent UMass poll was in the field when the September jobs report came out, showing the unemployment rate to have dropped to 7.8%. Brian Schaffner writes about how liberals and conservatives reacted differently to this news: The chart below...
Today’s employment report was the last wild card in the electoral deck. Substantively, the report was fairly positive: more jobs gained in October than expected, and the August/September numbers revised upward. Politically, it was a mixed bag, with unemployment up...
This is a guest post by Matthew Incantalupo, a doctoral candidate in politics and social policy at Princeton.*****The United States is slowly emerging from a once-in-a-generation period of high unemployment and the economy is the central issue of the waning...