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April 01, 2013 9:08 AM What Are People Inhaling When they Advocate Policies Not to Hire Smokers?

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...

By Harold Pollack

November 06, 2012 9:41 AM Knowledge Does not Guard Against Conspiracy Theories

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...

By Brendan Nyhan

November 05, 2012 10:52 AM Ideological Bias and the Jobs Report

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...

By John Sides

November 02, 2012 3:17 PM The Employment Report and the Election

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...

By Mark Kleiman

November 02, 2012 2:14 PM Does Unemployment Make People More Likely to Vote?

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...

By John Sides