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Help wanted in the Midwest
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Slow work force growth: a challenge for the Midwest?
If today's tight labor market in the Midwest can be sustained, as now seems likely, the region's policymakers and businesses will face problems associated with labor-constrained growth rather than the underemployment of the recent past. An era of tight labor markets can be expected to add impetus to public policies that improve labor market efficiency, along with those that address perceived labor market imperfections.
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Education and Vulnerability to Economic Shocks in the Carolinas
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Midwest prospects and the new economy
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Preparing Unemployment Insurance for a Downturn: The Carolinas
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the United States saw unemployment rates rise to levels it had not seen since the early 1980s as employers shed workers by the millions. Workers who had lost their jobs could not find other work and flooded into unemployment offices around the nation applying for benefits to ease the shock to their household income. Unemployment insurance claims and payouts soared, straining programs from coast to coast.
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District digest : Economic trends across the region
Article: How the recession affects state and local tax shortfalls - and how those shortfalls affect the recovery. pg. 36-39
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Workforce Investment in Times of Need and Fiscal Constraint