Why This Jobs Report Will Be a Mess

By BEN CASSELMAN
NYT Business
The lengthy government shutdown will make the Labor Department’s employment data for January hard to interpret.
Published date: February 1, 2019 at 01:03AM
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Government Shutdown Shakes Stability of Jobs That Are Often the Best Around

By NATALIE KITROEFF and ROBERT GEBELOFF
NYT Economy
Federal work is an anchor in many local economies, offering security and benefits increasingly rare in the private sector and a route to the middle class.
Published date: January 17, 2019 at 02:15AM
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‘We Want to Work’: Federal Employees Brace for Hard Times

By ROBIN LINDSAY, NATALIE RENEAU and WHITNEY HURST
NYT Politics
As the government shutdown drags on, 800,000 federal workers and their families are preparing to miss a paycheck. The Times reached out to some of them to hear their stories.
Published date: January 11, 2019 at 08:39PM
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Federal Shutdown’s Uneven Toll: Some Americans Devastated, Others Oblivious

By JULIE BOSMAN, PATRICIA COHEN and JULIE TURKEWITZ
NYT
As the shutdown approached record length, it was being felt by Americans in widely varying ways. For some, it is invisible; for others, it’s inescapable.
Published date: January 11, 2019 at 07:46PM
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Can Weak Unions Get Teachers More Money?

By NOAM SCHEIBER
NYT
What walkouts show about the real power of organized labor.
Published date: May 5, 2018 at 09:30PM
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