Tag: Jobs

Organizer Bryan Watson, left, gestures during a march to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle. Seattle backers of a $15 minimum wage hike that would be the highest in the nation, are not slowing down after an election season last fall. Backers of the hike are threatening to put the question to voters next fall if the city council does no act quickly enough.

Red Alert Politics

Raising the minimum wage decreases job prospects for young Americans, and screws those already employed

Jack Elbaum · May 24, 2018 7:17 pm

Steve Bannon: Martin Luther King ‘would be proud’ of Trump

Katie Leach · May 24, 2018 1:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a "Made in America," product showcase featuring items created in each of the U.S. 50 states, at the White House, Monday, July 17, 2017, in Washington.

Asian-Americans are winning big under Trump

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2018 4:00 am

This matters if we want to attract the best and the brightest to enter the highest levels of public service.

GOP bill would rename welfare the ‘JOBS Program’

Joseph Lawler · May 21, 2018 11:07 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court building stands in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Supreme Court ruling latest blow to Obama workplace law legacy

Sean Higgins · May 21, 2018 10:56 pm

"They're picking anti-Trump people," Darren Morris, Trump's Tennessee state director said. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Trump to rally in Nashville to celebrate 'booming economy helping Tennessee families'

Katie Leach · May 19, 2018 8:36 pm

A House staff member affixes a sign that says "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" ahead of a gathering of House Republicans making statements to the media following a vote on the GOP tax overhaul bill, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Rep. Erik Paulsen: How tax reform brings opportunity to poor neighborhoods

Rep. Erik Paulsen · May 18, 2018 4:00 am

Official time was first allowed under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act and is essentially viewed as a trade-off for certain limitations put on federal unions, such as prohibitions on striking.

Federal workers got $175 million to do union work instead of their jobs

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2018 3:32 pm

Rep. Keith Ellison, the D-Minn., speaks in Burlington, Vt.

Beltway Confidential

Rep. Keith Ellison flirts with idea of regulating CEO pay

Becket Adams · May 17, 2018 1:59 pm

Job seekers chat during the Opportunity Fair and Forum employment event in Dallas. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits a week earlier.

Jobless claims are running at the lowest level in nearly a half century

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2018 12:31 pm

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has repeatedly bragged about reinventing City Colleges of Chicago, which went from having a 7 percent graduation rate when he took office to a 17 percent graduation rate today.

The government is incentivizing employers to hire foreign students over citizens, and the media is ignoring it

Eduardo Neret · May 16, 2018 7:53 pm

The rooftop solar panel industry is starting to resemble something more akin to a conventional power plant utility than a fledgling outlier, and is growing in scale and market strength. (AP File Photo/Matt York)

Solar jobs fall in 2017, according to report from Obama’s energy chief

John Siciliano · May 16, 2018 2:00 pm