Ralph Kaiser

Facing Long Term Unemployment

“If we don’t get this unemployment rate down, eventually it’s going to stick,”  former chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer warned  on Monday’s show. “We’re going to have discouraged workers, people who have lost many skills. They may have a higher unemployment rate forever after, and that would be a true disaster.” With […]

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