WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM

You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More

WSJ Parrots Governor Christie on Jobs

But missing context undermines the governor’s—and the paper’s—story

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 16, 2010 at 05:51 PM

The idea, I suppose, of The Wall Street Journal's Greater New York section was to bring a little Journal touch... More

WSJ Spotlights Wage Declines of the Laid Off

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2011 at 08:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal is excellent today with this front-page examination of what the recession is doing to wages of... More

A Times Snapshot of the Gilded Age Economy

The very rich do very well while the rest of the country suffers

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM

The New York Times's business coverage today is good and depressing—a portrait of our Second Gilded Age. On page one,... More

Ask Bernanke About This, Too

Depression-era levels of black unemployment in some cities, well-documented in HuffPo

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This morning's strong Huffington Post piece on black-unemployment is a useful clip to print out and carry to the... More

Audit Notes: Herald-Tribune Investigation, Drumbeat, Nothing for the 99ers

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 10, 2010 at 07:01 PM

Down in Florida, State Farm has exited its coastal hurricane-insurance business, saying it couldn't afford it anymore. But thanks to... More

Audit Notes: Google v. Groupon, BofA Deal, The 99ers

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal's Shira Ovide writes that Google, spurned by Groupon despite its stunning $6 billion offer for the... More

Audit Notes: William Cohan, Three Little Pigs, Recovery Spring

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 2, 2012 at 01:14 AM

In Bloomberg BusinessWeek, William D. Cohan writes about the spectacular downfall of hedge fund manager Dan Zwirn, whose $12 billion... More

Covering the Unemployment Benefits Extension Vote

The reporting and play on a critical issue for millions needs to be a lot better

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2010 at 11:37 AM

(UPDATE: Thanks for the comments, all. All I can say is I hope things turn around for you—soon. I've quoted... More

Framing the Jobs Plan… Er, Second Stimulus

This time Democrats get that language matters, and the press plays along

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM

Barack Obama proposed his second stimulus last week, pitching a $450 billion measure. Or is it a jobs plan? Let's... More

HuffPo Strong on North Carolina Benefits Expiring

Arthur Delaney’s solid unemployment reporting

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08 PM

The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney has been doing some solid work following an important unemployment and budget story out... More

Jobless Benefits Extension Will Reduce Unemployment, Not Increase It

Contra a WSJ columnist, the stimulative impact outweighs any negatives

By Felix Salmon   Dec 9, 2010 at 08:32 PM

Last week, when I wrote my post on how to boost employment, the list started off unambiguously: The first—and this... More

Ohio’s Lost Decade

Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 05:52 PM

Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3... More

On Monetary Policy and Presidential Politics

The next election may depend on the economy. So where are the efforts to fix it?

By Greg Marx   Jun 2, 2011 at 04:04 PM

In today’s New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum notes what is thus far one of the most salient facts of the... More

Stories I’d Like to See

Afghan justice, Putin’s palace, and the Edwards trial

By Steven Brill   Mar 13, 2012 at 04:00 PM

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

That Stuck Feeling

The Huffington Post launches an ambitious new series on the poor and middle class

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 1, 2012 at 03:14 PM

We all had a chuckle yesterday at the poor hedge fund marketing director whining about the difficulties of living in... More

The NYT and the Urgency of the Unemployment Crisis

By Felix Salmon   Dec 3, 2010 at 11:02 AM

The unemployment rate has long been called Obama's Katrina, but at this point it's clear that it's much worse than... More

Unemployment Benefits as Search Engine Bait

Readers want to know about this issue. Many of them need to know

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2010 at 06:23 PM

When I think of SEO (search engine optimization), silly slide shows and headlines about Lindsey Lohan come to mind. But... More