Tag: Jobs

Four years ago, Jerry Brown launched "California Competes," his program to boost California jobs by awarding tax credits to job-creating businesses. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Beltway Confidential

California ‘jobs’ program fails as the state keeps chasing away job creators

Brendan Pringle · November 29, 2017 7:56 pm

The report is missing the important thing about job destruction and creation. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beltway Confidential

Relax: Robots are not going to make you unemployed for life

Tim Worstall · November 29, 2017 6:36 pm

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's multiemployer pension program protects 10 million workers and retirees in about 1,400 plans, but those plans have been troubled for years. (iStock)

Multiemployer pension plans in ‘dire’ shape, government monitor says

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2017 2:00 pm

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges' survey found that only 22 percent of trustees thought that preparing graduates for the workforce was the most important role for higher education institutions in the 21st century. This figure reveals the key disconnect in priorities between students and the colleges they attend. (AP Photo/Dave Collins)

Survey: Career prep is not a top priority for college trustees

Brendan Pringle · November 23, 2017 3:15 pm

A young bartender behind the bar (AP Photo/Michel Spingler).

The best and worst jobs according to millennials

Katie Zehnder · November 23, 2017 5:01 am

Low jobless claims are a good sign for the economy. If fewer people are applying for benefits at state agencies, it suggests that layoffs are relatively rare, and job creation high. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Jobless claims drop back down to 239,000

Joseph Lawler · November 22, 2017 1:32 pm

U.S. student debt is at an unprecedented $1.4 trillion. Recent studies show that approximately 70 percent of graduates leave school with a student loan debt averaging around $38,000. (iStock)

White House panel: Free speech, economic policy, and higher education reform have commonalities

Michael Keck · November 21, 2017 3:11 pm

The discussion at the White House Eisenhower Building centered on the rising national debt, the decline in skills-based training, and the lack of autonomy that teachers have to innovate at the local level. (Michael Kranewitter / Wikimedia Commons)

Red Alert Politics

White House hosts conversation on Higher Education

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

Millennials are set to be the least entrepreneurial generation in the last 100 years. There are key factors contributing to that: the Great Recession, student load debt, helicopter parents, and American oligopolies, among others. (iStock)

Millennials are the least entrepreneurial generation in the last 100 years, but why?

Brendan Pringle · November 18, 2017 5:01 am

Labor groups say the effort, led by Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, is crucial to a maintaining a sustained economic recovery. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Unions applaud White House on apprenticeship push

Sean Higgins · November 17, 2017 9:57 pm

Kevin Hassett, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers talks to reporters during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Top White House economist rejects ‘trickle down’ criticism, says tax cuts will lead to growth

Sarah Bedford · November 17, 2017 8:41 pm

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said several Obama administration regulatory efforts, which covered overtime rules, retirement investment advice, corporate legal liability, and disclosure requirements by lawyers who practice labor law were overreaches that hurt the economy. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta backs Trump administration on overtime rule

Sean Higgins · November 15, 2017 7:37 pm