unemployment

October 17, 2016

Three ways boom states can prepare for re-training workers during inevitable bust years

Event Date: More than $16.3 million is on its way to support re-employment services for Texas oil and gas workers whose jobs have been lost in recent years. That’s good news in oil-dependent places like Brooks, Duval and Jim Wells counties, where unemployment is more than twice the national average — but it’s also a bit of […]

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August 31, 2016

Three ways to fight the summer job gap among rich and poor teens

Event Date: The stats-savvy journalism team at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight has taken on the subject of summer jobs for teens. If you’ve been following this issue, as we have, you already know that summer teen employment is a key predictor of adult employment, and that fewer than one in three American teens is now employed during the […]

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