Tag: Jobs

Beltway Confidential

The high-growth economy hesitates

Bruce Yandle · October 3, 2018 4:00 am

Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses supporters of Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed during a rally, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, in Detroit.

Bernie Sanders: Amazon’s $15 wage is the ‘shot heard round the world’

Sean Higgins · October 2, 2018 3:24 pm

Combine harvesters sit parked before shipment at the CLAAS of America Inc. production facility in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release industrial production figures on June 15.

Four-year high in US growth threatened by slower capital spending

James Langford · September 27, 2018 12:47 pm

Beltway Confidential

Uber and Lyft wages aren’t falling — more people are simply working for them

Tim Worstall · September 24, 2018 6:56 pm

Idle hands are the devil’s playthings

Timothy P. Carney · September 19, 2018 2:38 pm

Dockworkers discuss the placement of a 40-foot shipping container onto a ship at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. China has promised retaliation if Washington goes ahead with more tariff hikes, raising the risk Beijing might target operations of American companies if it runs out of imports for penalties.

New China tariffs will cost estimated 94,000 jobs

Sean Higgins · September 18, 2018 3:32 pm

Labor-market expansion masks growing risk in US manufacturing

James Langford · September 18, 2018 4:00 am

Half of Americans have no retirement savings — here’s how Congress can look out for them

Karl Polzer · September 15, 2018 4:00 am

Trump will spend Tuesday playing catch up in Ohio, while Clinton campaigns in Colorado. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Wages, the real economic indicator, finally look strong

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2018 3:39 am

FILE - In a March 30, 2011 file photo, workers prepare engines for installation into Polaris' Ranger side-by-side vehicles at the company's plant in Roseau, Minn. Some companies in northwest Minnesota find themselves struggling with skilled worker and chronic housing shortages because there are more jobs available in the area than places where workers can live. (AP Photo/MPR News, Tom Robertson)

House to vote on changing Obamacare’s definition of full-time worker

Sean Higgins · September 12, 2018 10:58 pm

The Save American Workers Act is a good start on healthcare, but it’s not enough

Joel White · September 12, 2018 2:29 pm

Visitors look at paintings at an exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx at the National Museum in Beijing, May 5, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Karl Marx explains why wages are about to increase big time in the US

Tim Worstall · September 11, 2018 7:55 pm