You knew this story was coming, mostly because horse-race coverage is easier to do than in-depth economic coverage.
Friday’s jobs report is undoubtedly a big political story, but it is much more of a human story. The continual sputtering of the economy means that thousands remain unemployed or underemployed (I’ve just joined their ranks), or have lost their houses.
The Times has done some of these stories, but like most of the rest of the news media it has done them far too infrequently.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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