Justin Fox
CEOs are working harder
What do CEOs do? They go to meetings, mainly. When not in meetings, they spend a lot of time on email.So, CEOs are just...
Smaller households, bigger houses
The average U.S. household is 24 percent (or 0.82 people) smaller than it was in the early 1960s. This downtrend has flattened out a...
Making stuff back in fashion
One of the most important economic changes in the United States over the past half-century has been the shift away from making goods to...
Manufacturing jobs are still pretty good jobs
In November 2014, the average hourly pay of production and nonsupervisory workers in durable goods manufacturing fell behind that of their peers in the...
U.S. manufacturing holding its own
Everybody knows that there are fewer manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than there used to be. To be precise, there are 7 million fewer...
The argument for ditching the 401(k) and starting over
There have been some modest attempts in the past few years to shore up and fill in gaps in this country’s haphazard system of...
Ten years after the economy fell apart
The last recession was deemed after the fact to have begun in December 2007. It’s more accurate to say that the previous economic recovery...
Restaurant boom fizzles
Employment at food services and drinking places rebounded strongly in October as waiters, cooks and bartenders in hurricane-ravaged Florida and Texas went to work....
65 is new 55, and vice versa
The civilian, prime-working-age population in the U.S. has barely budged over the past decade.The Wall Street Journal’s Lev Borodovsky, taking notice of this phenomenon,...
Where did all the restaurant workers go?
The 83-month-long streak of payroll employment gains appears to have been broken in September. The 33,000-job decline recently announced by the Bureau of Labor...
