A Jobless Dilemma: What’s Wrong With Fort Wayne?

This article provides an interesting case study of some of the important problems which have been plaguing the labor market ever since the onset of the Great Recession in 2007.  It also corroborates some of the recently published findings in Casey Mulligan’s book entitled The Redistribution Recession; specifically, Professor Mulligan’s finding that increases in the benefits available to unemployed workers help to explain the depth of the Great Recession which began in 2007 and the slowness of the recovery (particularly in the labor market) since then.