links for 2008-07-09

[M]ost people who lose their job these days don’t qual­ify for any unem­ploy­ment bene­fits at all. How can this be? Simple. In order to be eli­gible, most states require you to have been work­ing in the job you lost full time, and for a cer­tain num­ber of yea

“National papers with well-educated read­er­ships, such as the WSJ and The Globe and Mail, are doing quite well. But met­ro­pol­itan dailies, espe­cially in the ultra-competitive U.S. mar­ket, are suffering.”