Unemployment Rates Ticks up to 9.6

With the loss of 114,00 Census jobs, the economy only added 60,000 jobs in August. African Americans saw the largest increase in unemployment and health care was the only sector to show any consistent strength as the growth in manufacturing came to an end. The latest jobs data indicate cyclical rather than structural unemployment. More in this month's Jobs Byte.

“South of the Border”: New Openings, Interviews, and Response to Criticism

Mark Weisbrot, CEPR Co-Director and co-writer of the Oliver Stone documentary," South of the Border," has written a new response to misleading criticism of the film from a New York Times reporter. The film is currently playing in the U.S. and U.K. will open in several new U.S. cities in the coming weeks. Listen to Mark's latest radio interviews about the film here.