PBS NewsHour The day Reagan’s labor secretary admitted he was wrong about inequality Reporting on the release of the monthly jobs numbers last Friday, we spoke with Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestoneabout what he called generally good news: 200,000 people back to work and the unemployment rate down to 7 percent. But for those people “out of the economy,” in Bluestone’s words, or the long-term unemployed, of whom there are consistently about […]