Tag: Jobs

Record-high openings is a good sign for the economy and another indication that the jobs recovery still has steam in its seventh year. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Job openings rise to highest level on record, 6 million

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2017 2:16 pm

Maryland crab is delicious, if you can afford it. At $30 to $50 per pound, it's certainly not cheap. That's why I was curious to know just how much H-2B workers were valued by their employers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

No free market in Maryland crab picking

Washington Examiner Staff · June 5, 2017 4:01 am

Friday's jobs report missed private-sector forecasters' expectations for 185,000 new jobs. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Job gains fall shy in May at 138,000, but unemployment lowest since May 2001

Joseph Lawler · June 2, 2017 12:31 pm

At 96 months in duration, the recovery is already significantly longer than the postwar average of 58.4 months. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Economic recovery hits eight-year mark, with no end in sight

Joseph Lawler · June 1, 2017 2:57 pm

Private-sector forecasters had expected jobless claims to nudge up from 234,000 the week before to 239,000. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Unemployment benefits running at lowest levels in 43 years

Joseph Lawler · June 1, 2017 12:31 pm

The Commerce Department will release its second of three estimates of growth for the January-March quarter as measured by the gross domestic product. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Economic growth revised up to 1.2 percent in the first quarter

Joseph Lawler · May 26, 2017 12:32 pm

President Trump claimed Friday "millions of jobs" in the United States have been saved because of his foreign trip. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Trump claims ‘millions of jobs’ in US were saved because of his foreign trip

Alex Pappas · May 26, 2017 10:26 am

Nearly three-quarters of U.S.-based economists also oppose the $15 federal minimum wage that Democrat leaders endorsed. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Top Democrats just endorsed a $15 minimum wage, but don’t even pay their own interns that much

Akash Chougule · May 25, 2017 7:34 pm

The minimum wage would be raised from $7.25 to $15, a stark change for the Democratic Party, which was promoting an increase to $10.50 in 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats officially introduce $15 minimum wage bill

Sean Higgins · May 25, 2017 5:38 pm

Forecasters had expected new jobless claims, which are adjusted for seasonal variations, to tick up to 237,000. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jobless claims are running at the lowest level in 44 years

Joseph Lawler · May 25, 2017 12:31 pm

President Trump may use Twitter to respond to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony in real time, according to some reports. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Trump calls to cut off tax breaks for illegal immigrants

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2017 1:00 am

"There are large compliance costs with having to deal with a myriad of regulations across states and now across localities. For many businesses, the minimum wage hike in their state will already be a cost ... but now dealing with different minimum wages in different parts of the state (and across the country) imposes an additional cost," said Aparna Mathur, economic policy scholar for American Enterprise Institute.

States rein in cities raising minimum wage

Sean Higgins · May 22, 2017 4:01 am