Labor Sep 19, 2019 Snapshot The American Working Man Still Isn’t Working Prime-age men’s non-employment in the United States has been creeping upward for decades—from a low of four percent in the 1950s to almost 14 percent today. Jason Furman
Economics March/April 2019 Essay Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? It's time for Washington to focus on bigger things. Jason Furman and Lawrence H. Summers
Labor July/August 2016 Essay The Truth About American Unemployment Fears of a “jobless recovery” have proved unfounded: the U.S. unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis of 2008. Yet one aspect of the... Jason Furman