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  1. @JudyWoodruff interviews EPI's Josh Bivens and Harvard's Ken Rogoff to.pbs.org/JJ734J (topics: Europe's economic crisis, U.S. debt, jobs)
  2. If missing workers reenter the labor market, the unemployment rate will stay high even as the labor market strengthens: bit.ly/LsxZ9I
  3. @agoodcuppa @AlterNet Anna, you can contact news@epi.org.
  4. Wages of young college graduates have failed to grow over the last decade: bit.ly/KmZoe6
  5. Between 1990 and 2005 insourcing displaced 4 million US jobs. EPI’s Rob Scott at the Cambridge Forum: bit.ly/J55FOS
  6. #FF EPI's blog @WorkingEconBlog & staff on Twitter: @metaCoop @A_Fieldhouse @halldjh @EthanPollack #p2
  7. Taxes have fallen furthest for those at the very top: bit.ly/JeZaHv
  8. Watch @NYTimeskrugman discuss his new book, End This Depression Now!, at EPI: bit.ly/Kp0BjC
  9. Average job growth of last 3 months better measure of labor market than 115,000 jobs added in April bit.ly/KzAWW6
  10. #FF EPI's blog @WorkingEconBlog & staff @costadaniel @metaCoop @A_Fieldhouse @halldjh @EthanPollack
  11. Class of 2012 faces high unemployment and depressed wages: bit.ly/IJ0vsG
  12. Watch the @NYTimeskrugman event at EPI now: bit.ly/Kp0BjC
  13. @edshow Check out the report we released today on the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio: bit.ly/JeEMo2
  14. Women and African Americans hit hardest by job losses in state and local governments: bit.ly/KOLxB0
  15. From 1978 to 2011, CEO compensation increased more than 725%; workers' compensation increased 5.7%: bit.ly/JeEMo2