Tag: Jobs

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005, file photo, customers at a Wal-Mart store head to the checkout lines past a worker with the company's motto on the back of her vest, in Salt Lake City. With fewer middle-income jobs available, low-wage work is becoming a dead-end for more Wal-Mart employees. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

Obama signs order to revise overtime pay rules

Meghashyam Mali · March 13, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, sponsors theÃÂ Fair Minimum Wage Act. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manhattan Moment: Democrats don’t practice what they preach on minimum wage

Jared Meyer · March 13, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005, file photo, customers at a Wal-Mart store head to the checkout lines past a worker with the company's motto on the back of her vest, in Salt Lake City. With fewer middle-income jobs available, low-wage work is becoming a dead-end for more Wal-Mart employees. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

Low-wage jobs unexpectedly a way of life for many

Josh Boak · March 12, 2014 8:05 pm

Beltway Confidential

Washington will never work until bureaucrats know they can be fired tomorrow

Mark Tapscott · March 12, 2014 4:00 am

Lower crime now may be a fruit of welfare reform 20 years ago

Michael Barone · March 12, 2014 12:00 am

Labor market mystery: The ranks of the long-term unemployed swell, despite benefits cut

Joseph Lawler · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

Hiring and job creation stall in January

Joseph Lawler · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

After a big week for economic policy that began with the president unveiling his budget proposal and ended with a better-than-expected jobs report, this week will be a little slower. But there's still plenty happening.

The week ahead in economics: Marco Rubio speaks, job openings survey and Jack Lew testifies

Joseph Lawler · March 10, 2014 12:00 am

The Obama economy’s double-whammy: Discouraging both job creation and work

The Obama economy’s double-whammy: Discouraging both job creation and work

Andrew Puzder · March 10, 2014 12:00 am

Why severe weather made little mark on US hiring

Christopher Rugaber · March 8, 2014 3:01 am

US job gain despite freeze raises economic hopes

Christopher Rugaber · March 8, 2014 12:01 am

The Third Number

The Third Number

Geoffrey Norman · March 7, 2014 8:50 am