Tag: Jobs

Gene Sperling, the director of President Obama's National Economic Council, pushed for Congress to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation for three months. (AP File)

Obama adviser Gene Sperling pushes for unemployment benefits extension without offsets

Joseph Lawler · January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Predict Now, Revise Tomorrow

Irwin M. Stelzer · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Job seekers check out companies at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. (AP/Alan Diaz)

Don’t extend unemployment benefits

David Freddoso · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

A Whiting Petroleum Co. pump jack pulls crude oil from the Bakken region of the Northern Plains near Bainville, Mont., on Nov. 6. A growing push to allow oil companies to export some of the crude oil that is being produced in greater volumes domestically is sparking debate as 2014 nears. The ban on exports stems from a 1975 law passed after the nation suffered crippling shortages of oil and gas. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Beltway Confidential

Another hiring surge in North Dakota thanks to shale oil

Ashe Schow · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Just 1 of 31 Bloomberg News watch groups confident in economy

Paul Bedard · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Economic Indicators Up, Obama’s Not

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 28, 2013 5:00 am

A long line of job seekers wait outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the last week on Dec. 26. (AP/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

Weekly US jobless claims drop 42,000 to 338,000

Associated Press · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. stocks were poised to open higher Thursday, as Wall Street returns from the Christmas holiday, helped by a report that showed fewer Americans were filing for unemployment benefits. (AP/Richard Drew)

Better news on US job market sends stocks higher

Associated Press · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council released a survey in which respondents indicated their belief that government regulations are hurting the economy. (Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: Most Americans want Obama to cut red tape in 2014

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

The state's falling unemployment rate would appear to be good news, but University of Connecticut economists said in a report released Monday that it's due not to job creation, but because workers are quitting the labor force.

Economists see little cheer in falling joblessness

Associated Press · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

Washington Secrets

Republicans, even John Boehner, face voter backlash over unemployment cutoff

Paul Bedard · December 23, 2013 5:00 am

Retailers Worry About More Than This Season

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 21, 2013 5:00 am