Tag: Unemployment

The Federal Reserve, led by Chairman Ben Bernanke, began winding down its unprecedented efforts to stimulate the economy through quantitative easing Wednesday, capping months of speculation about the timing of the "taper" of its open-ended monthly bond purchases.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal Reserve scales back quantitative easing program by $10 billion

Joseph Lawler · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

Amid healing labor market, long-term unemployment still dire

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks to the media before meeting with newly elected mayors from across the country, on Friday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Mayors need extension of jobless benefits, minimum-wage hike

Brian Hughes · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

In November, 67.8 million women were working in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 122,000 fewer than at the peak of the expansion, which officially tipped into recession in December 2007. Women are likely to make up that gap in the next few months. (File photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Jobs recovery going better for women

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, retired U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Thomas Gipson, of Atlanta, right, has his resume looked over by Ralph Brown, a management and program analyst with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a job fair for veterans at the VFW Post 2681,Marietta, Ga. The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

US unemployment aid applications surge to 368,000

Josh Boak · December 12, 2013 2:01 pm

The headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank is seen at sunrise in Washington Saturday, May 24, 2008. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Fed message muddled if jobless aid expires

Washington Examiner · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

A retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant has his resume looked over during a job fair for veterans in Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 14. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

White House to Congress: ‘Act as soon as possible’ on jobless benefits

Meghashyam Mali · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will run for president in 2016 -- if he can convince his wife to sign off on the idea. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rand Paul hits back at White House on unemployment benefits

Brian Hughes · December 8, 2013 5:00 am

âFor many families, it can be the difference between hardship and catastrophe,â said Obama in his weekly address.

Obama presses Congress to extend jobless benefits

Meghashyam Mali · December 7, 2013 5:00 am

Thorns Among the Roses

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 7, 2013 5:00 am

FILE- In thisTuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, a covered vehicle sits in part of the new paint shop at Chrysler's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. The Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the July-September quarter of 2013 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Analyst forecast that third-quarter growth will be revised to a 3.1 percent annual rate, faster than the initial estimate of 2.8 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Solid November jobs report could give economy jolt

Josh Boak · December 6, 2013 5:15 am

Beltway Confidential

Al Sharpton mocks rich people from the comfort of his own beautifully tailored pinstripe suit

Joel Gehrke · December 6, 2013 5:00 am