The Post Goes Nuts on Demographics, Again

Just after I say something nice about the WAPO's reporting, the paper does its best to make up for its good deed. We find the Post trying to blame the slow recovery on demographics. See, the big problem is that because of the retirement of the baby boomers the labor market isn't growing as fast as it had in prior recoveries.


Okay, let's get this one straight. We have more than 25 million people unemployed, underemployed, or out of the workforce altogether because they have given up looking...

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Published on September 05, 2011 14:41
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