Tag: Jobs

In this photo made on Friday, March 28, 2014, workers continue construction on a housing plan in Zelienople, Pa.

Beltway Confidential

In search of workers, home builders and auto makers back prison reform

Philip Wegmann · December 5, 2018 10:11 pm

A student looks over possible jobs during a college job fair.

Campus free speech doesn’t mean disrupting job fairs

Brendan Pringle · December 4, 2018 6:43 pm

Outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan and likely incoming Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi walk away after paying their respects to former president George H.W. Bush at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Democrats take over 1,800 House jobs that pay up to $172,500, Trump helping jobless Republicans

Paul Bedard · December 4, 2018 2:54 pm

A graduate's cap is seen at a graduation ceremony in New York state.

Career-minded students flee the humanities for STEM, but they’re leaving a huge vacancy in the middle

Nicole Russell · November 30, 2018 6:57 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Chuck Schumer: New trade deal ‘too weak’ on environment, labor, and dairy protections

Susan Ferrechio · November 30, 2018 2:35 pm

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks to members of media on Capitol Hill on April 7, 2016.

Sherrod Brown: Trump ready to fix his tax law to help GM

Katelyn Caralle · November 29, 2018 1:42 pm

USDA made its employees show up for work. Now it’s teaching other agencies how to do the same

Pete Kasperowicz · November 28, 2018 10:00 pm

The carmakers, along with technology company IBM, are giving $100,000 each to Americans for Carbon Dividends, the lobbying arm of a GOP-backed group supporting a federal carbon tax and dividend.

Amid GM drama, Ford shuffles workers to meet demand for SUVs, trucks

Joe Williams · November 28, 2018 9:58 pm

The "Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library" exhibit by Comedy Central is seen in Washington.

Trump drains Wall Street’s enthusiasm for GM’s production overhaul

James Langford · November 28, 2018 7:02 pm

A worker straps down a steel coil at the Borusan Mannesmann steel pipe plant in Baytown, Texas. President Trump's escalating dispute with China over trade and technology is threatening jobs and profits in working-class communities where his "America First" agenda hit home.

Trump touts new Steel Dynamics plant as proof tariffs are paying off

Joe Williams · November 28, 2018 5:30 pm

Political commentator Geraldo Rivera speaks to members of the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. President-elect Donald Trump said his administration would produce a full report on hacking within the first 90 days of his presidency and accused "my political opponents and a failed spy" of making "phony allegations" against him.

Geraldo Rivera says he’s ‘ashamed’ the US treats migrants like zombies from ‘The Walking Dead’

Naomi Lim · November 27, 2018 3:32 pm

One out of every seven prisoners in the U.S. is serving a life sentence in some capacity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Beltway Confidential

Prisoners can’t find work when they get out — this could easily change that

Jared Meyer · November 27, 2018 1:30 pm