HeyJaredFull Spectrum Jordan
Every week I’ll be sharing brief points on political events in Jordan and its neighbors and the basic points to understand the context.
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The Two Jordans (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to be unemployed? It doesn’t just mean to be without work, and hasn’t meant that for a long time. The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) in the U.S. published its True Rate of Unemployment (TRU) last month. It counts three metrics: 1) Jobless and looking for work, 2) Working part-time because they cannot find a full-time job, and 3) earning less than $26,000 per year (poverty-level wages). The report changed the picture of unemployment in the U.S.
The Deir ez-Zor Trip-wire (opens the original)
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In my last piece, When Disruption is Victory, I described the dashboard I use to track ISIS claims across Syria. With the same dashboard, I have programmed an early warning layer, a number of trip wires that activate once certain indicators are met. The most important one was designed for Deir ez-Zor. My Data showed the region produced the group’s hardest operations. It ranks first in the country for operational complexity, and its eastern towns (Hajin, al-Sha’fa, Dhiban) were the caliphate’s la
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