U.S. News & World Report, March 26, 2012, Monday

U.S. News & World Report

March 26, 2012, Monday

U.S. News & World Report (full article)

Where Jobs Are (and Aren't) Growing

"What's more reassuring is if you dig a little bit deeper into reports by the [Bureau of Labor Statistics], you see that ... in Rust Belt cities in particular like Detroit, Kansas City, and others, the more recent drops were not driven by simply by a contraction in the labor force but rather were driven by actual declines in the number of people who were unemployed," says Matthew Freedman, assistant professor in economics at Cornell University.