Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist recruited to lead President Obama’s economics team just before the president is set to announce a major new jobs initiative, has done some influential research on unemployment. In one of his most recent stu

The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank president said U.S. unemployment remains “disturbingly high,” yet cautioned economic recoveries after financial crises tend to be very slow. Narayana Kocherlakota, during an audience question-and-answe

The worst report is that unemployment is going up and not down. Many unemployed Americans have gone underground with low self-esteem and shame. While the unemployed have kept mum and into the darkness, trickles of the jobless mobilizing and forming g