Employers across America’s largest metro areas added nearly 453,000 workers to their payrolls in March. But despite this recent uptick, job totals remain far below where they were before the pandemic. The road toward a full labor market recovery in metro areas may be a long and complicated one, Sarah Crump and Alan Berube write.
Who stores their money in tax havens? A leaked cache of internal files and emails from the Cayman National Bank and Trust provides a rare glimpse into the offshore finance world. After looking through the data for a year, Matthew Collin shares three key discoveries.
Birth rates have fallen steadily in the U.S. for years, but the number of births in the last quarter of 2020 was substantially lower than that of 2019. Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine estimate the excess decline in births potentially attributable to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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