As it should be:

And thanks, Mike the Heathen, for the link.

The austerity zombies are eating the recovery

How much has state and federal austerity hurt our economic recovery? Quite a lot, writes Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz at Working Economics. They say: How many more jobs would we have if the public sector hadn’t been shedding jobs for the last three years? The simplest answer is that the public sector has shed …