Slowing benefits cost increases

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that wages and salaries have increased by about 2.4% over the year ending in June 2005, while benefits costs increased by a little more than twice that much (5.1%).
Believe it or not, that’s good news. It represents a slowing of benefits cost increases, down from a 7.2% [...]

Workaholic Americans — not really

Sometimes I think that being an economist must be a peculiar thing because it gives you are really skewed vision of the world.

And then, sometimes, I think that maybe I’m the one with the skewed vision of the world.

Press releases land on my desk

Well, yes … where did you expect them to land?

We’ve been hearing quite a bit from Senate Small Business Committee Ranking Member John Kerry (D-MA) lately.

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