If you’re out of work then you’re all too familiar with the unemployment rate – 9.5% and rising. But in the July 8th Wall Street Journal, Conor Dougherty reported on another jobs number that doesn’t get nearly as much attention – the Job Openings Rate. That’s the number of jobs actually available at any given [...]
When I headed to lunch yesterday I took along last week’s Time Magazine cover story on the future of work http://tinyurl.com/r7pu6h. It was a great accompaniment to my yankee bean soup and tuna sandwich. The article is actually a series of 10 essays from a group of Time reporters who specialize in [...]