June 2026 Unemployment Data–the Full Count (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 4.2%* [ANALYSES by EXPERTS] White 3.6% African American 6.6% Hispanic 5.2% Asian¹ 3.9% Persons with a disability¹ 8.6% Men 20 years and over 3.9% Women 20 years and over 3.7% Teens (16-19… Read More Unemployment Data-JUNE 2026
By Frank Stricker June 15, 2026 Many of the numbers did not change much in the latest BLS jobs report. The official unemployment rate was 4.3%, and the rate has been around that number for the past year. Real unemployment, as illustrated in NJFAN’s Full Count under Hidden Unemployment, is twice as high. As usual,… Read More The Unemployment Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for May 2026—and More
Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America. Penguin Press, 2025. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In Paper Girl, Journalist Beth Macy–author of Dopesick, the best-selling investigation of the US opioid epidemic—turns her sharp eye to Urbana, her hometown in rural Ohio. About ten years ago, Macy started noticing some changes… Read More Book Review: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America, by Beth Macy
By Sarianna Sabbarese (Field Organizer for the Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force and the National Jobs for All Network) The Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force (JAHRTF) serves as Connecticut’s chapter of the National Jobs for All Network, responding to unique challenges within the state’s economic, employment, social and political landscape from… Read More Good Jobs Are a Human Right!
by Cortney Sanders On May 8, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College convened its annual conference marking 40 years since the Institute’s founding. The occasion drew a distinguished assembly of economists, journalists, and policymakers united by a shared conviction that conventional economics has consistently failed to reckon with the realities facing the global economy… Read More Levy Economics Institute 40th Anniversary Conference
