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Around The Dial – June 24, 2011

Economic policy reports, blog postings, and media stories of interest:

• The New York Times reports on the fight over extending unemployment benefits.
• The BBC explains the collapse of the Greek state.
• Slate explains the importance of the ruling in Wal-Mart v. Dukes.
• Project Syndicate thinks about “the economic governance the EU needs.”
• Jared Bernstein graphs “the middle class squeeze.”
• Naked Capitalism points out more evidence that the U.S. is becoming a “corpocracy.”

Upside Down Economics

In a recent interview with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, economist Ha-Joon Chang of the University of Cambridge explains how conventional wisdom about “free trade” often is wrong.

May Local Employment Report

South by North Strategies will not be releasing a written analysis of the May 2011 jobs report for local communities in North Carolina on the morning of June 24, 2011.

Firm representatives, however, will be available for comment via phone or email, preferably email. Interested journalists should contact John Quinterno at johnq[at]sbnstrategies[dot]com or 919-622-2392.

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Around The Dial – June 23, 2011

Economic policy reports, blog postings, and media stories of interest:

• New Deal 2.0 looks at new research about changes in work families.
• Naked Capitalism sees “dubious research” about student loan debt.
• Oliver Blanchard and colleagues describe the “winding road to recovery.”
• Jared Bernstein lays out “some dont’s and do’s for the recovery.”
• Economix asks “if business ever will buy into early childhood education.”

Small Business Fact Of The Day

Random Samplings, the blog of the U.S. Census Bureau, notes that half of all American businesses are home-based enterprises.

When we think of a business, we often conjure up an image of an office park or perhaps a storefront in a strip mall. But in reality, according to new data on firms that responded to the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), slightly more than half of U.S. businesses — 51.6 percent — were home-based. Only 6.9 percent of these home-based respondent businesses had $250,000 or more in sales and receipts, while 57.1 percent brought in less than $25,000.