#Recessions

So I've been doing a lot of research during the pandemic, and I've figured I'd share a bit of what I've learned. This is a thread on Unemployment Insurance (UI).
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What is the longer-term impact of Covid-19 on higher education? Three possible scenarios, obviously shaped by the duration and re-emergence of the virus: 1/11 Scenario 1 (least likely): Return to
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Spent some time today on media questions about women’s job losses, one asked about the focus on reopening schools. I’ll repeat one point here:I find the lack of investment here
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Job losses much worse in blue states than red states. Northern battleground states lost more jobs than Sunbelt battlegrounds.(New BLS state data for Sept, out this morning.)1/ Among battleground states,
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People will focus on the ÂŁ50bn+ cost of the Job Retention Scheme, but the real challenges with what the Chancellor has announced today are different. Three stand out... 1. Refusing
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So a friend was asking me why I am in favour of NGDP targeting, so here is my take. If there is a prism through which I think about public
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This is an important thread. I don’t think I agree with Matt that this election will be about China. It will be about the pandemic. But one of the most
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Rayner: Infections are rising. The testing system is collapsing. When you are PM you can't keep trying to blame other people for your own incompetence. We've the highest death toll
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It shows the share of job postings that required a bachelor degree (left axis) and the unemployment rate (right axis). The same relationship holds for experience. Here's the share requiring
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Does Nikki Haley not know what we're doing for businesses right now? Sounds like she's also against PPP.If your answer in recessions is "you should have saved more!" you fundamentally
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1 - Man made plagues? The 400 yrs have been over in other parts of the Americas & Caribbean for a while already. I know we in the US say
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Fortunately, if you're reading this here's some tips to survive and/or come out better after the recession... If you have a home, sell by next summer. Take that cash and
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I've seen a few articles recently in which employers say they cannot find workers, and they assign blame to unemployment benefits being too generous. This is one of the most
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Doctor's offices are small businesses. They employ thousands of Albertans, pay rent for commercial space, and contract other small businesses even in recessions.The UCP Bill 30 is anti small business.
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Here are 11 recession resistant businesses that can make you over $10,000/month (#2 can be passive):-thread- Recession is the buzz word of the day.The market has tanked the last 6
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The redundancy story in today's @BDonline says 32% of practices made job cuts but doesn't say if this affected fee earning architects or others. If it did a bit of
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