Category: Kevin Drum

The American economy gained 245,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate declined slightly to 6.7 percent: Overall, we’ve lost about 10 million jobs in 2020. As always, though, I’d caution everyone not to read too much into these numbers. November’s job gains are disappointingly small, but there’s really no reason to think we’re going…

Yeah, he looks tired now. But a few days of rest at the end of January should perk him right back up.Chris Kleponis – Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For a…

Today the New York Times points to a recent study suggesting that lots of people are qualified for jobs which would pay them way more than they’re making now. That’s probably true, and I don’t have any beef with it. However, the study’s abstract starts out like this: The demand for a skilled workforce is…

Image by Vectorportal.com, CC BY Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.For no particular reason, it occurred to me the other day that one of the drawbacks of blogging is that readers never get a full sense…

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The Office of Management and Budget is one of those agencies that’s little known to the public but surprisingly important in real life. In addition to…

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Our editor-in-chief has a gripe: Oh good another sweeping analysis piece based on early exits that are even more massively misleading than normal early exits. — Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) November 28,…