Outside the Beltway

According to some new studies by crack economists, it’s helpful to have a spouse bringing in some money if you happen to lose your job.

If job growth continues at the anemic pace that it has been on in 2010, it could be quite some time before we return to the “Good Old Days” of 5% unemployment.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

Another month, another bad jobs report.

New Jersey’s governor has killed a vital infrastructure project because of huge cost overruns. It’s penny wise and pound foolish.

Paul Krugman says there’s zero evidence for structural causes for unemployment. It’s just a demand problem. How do we spark demand, then?

DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee has radically transformed the system for the better. Naturally, the teachers unions want her gone.

The August jobs numbers may be “better than expected,” but they still aren’t all that great.

According to a new MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the public that will head to the polls in November is increasingly gloomy and pessimistic.

Despite 9.5% unemployment, American firms are struggling to find qualified applicants for job openings.

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Is the GOP really serious about changing the citizenship rules in the 14th Amendment ? Not likely.

Another bad jobs report demonstrates that the “recovery” is an illusion for many people.

A review by the Army of its alarming spike in suicides blames it on the new strain of risk-seeking recruits who join during wartime and commanders who neglect to rein them in.

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.

Some lawyers make a fabulous salary right out of law school. Most don’t.

Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.

Most research shows that unemployment benefits/insurance increases the duration of unemployment.

While political junkies dissect every vote and utterance, most Americans vote based on their gut sense of how the economy is doing.

Nobody can really say whether the stimulus worked — or even define “worked” — but that doesn’t stop them from issuing pronouncements.

Teaching college is a lot more work than outsiders think — although probably not as much work as professors think.

Age-adjusted unemployment is at its worst in more than a quarter century

A lot stands in the way of returning to pre-collapse employment levels in the USA.

Law schools are artificially raising student grades, sometimes retroactively, to make them more competitive on the job market.