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Do Corporate Profits Produce the Right Stockholder Dividends?

This is the season when most of America’s corporations send their shareholders notice of the company’s annual meeting along with the 10-K report. The 10-K reports and the information in them are required as part of their corporate charter, although the companies often write additional summaries with lots of charts and photographs to highlight their […]

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Which College Degrees Have the Best Job Opportunities?

There were 1,524,092 BA degree graduates for the year ending June 2007 — the last year of complete data. Graduates with a BA degree show a nearly unbroken increase since the 1960’s. A total of 22.5 million people received BA degrees in the United States between 1990 and the year ending June 2007. During the […]

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Not All Jobs Are Created Equal

Is employment looking up? In Newsweek, Daniel Gross says that “Jobs Are on the Way!,” noting that even though employment is still off 11,000 jobs, the all-important service sector has added 58,000 jobs. He cites the 0.2% drop in the unemployment rate and a few other markers of improvement, concluding America’s job market is turning […]

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To Create Jobs, Industries Must Transform

The decline of the American Textile industry is well documented. In 1990, there were 928,000 people working in just the apparel industry; by 2008 it was down to 198,000. The decline is more than double the jobs lost in the automobile industry. Most of us see our clothes marked “Made in China” or some far […]

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Green Jobs Bring Both Benefits and Costs

As part of the Reinvestment and Recovery Act passed earlier this spring, President Obama announced plans to create green jobs. “A green, renewable-energy economy isn’t some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future. It is now. It is creating jobs now,” he said. The new law provides money and development programs for adopting environmental technologies and helping to expand […]

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