Tag: Jobs

Stephen Colbert defends woman who was fired for flipping off Trump’s motorcade

Caitlin Yilek · November 7, 2017 1:57 pm

Woman fired from her job after flipping off Trump’s motorcade

Caitlin Yilek · November 6, 2017 2:55 pm

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

Congress moves to reshape the NLRB

Sean Higgins · November 5, 2017 4:01 am

The jobs report vindicated economists' belief that September's weak report, which originally showed 33,000 lost jobs, reflected the one-time impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma rather than a broader economic slowdown. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Job growth rebounds from hurricanes to 261,000 in October, unemployment falls to 4.1 percent

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2017 12:31 pm

People stand during the general session of the Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

In leaked email, DNC manager prefers colleagues not alert ‘cisgender straight white males’ about job openings

Emily Jashinsky · November 1, 2017 9:28 pm

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks at a news conference on American labor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democratic leaders call for end to right-to-work

Sean Higgins · November 1, 2017 6:35 pm

This was a very short-sighted decision. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Trade panel recommends Trump impose solar tariffs as high as 35 percent

John Siciliano · October 31, 2017 6:29 pm

Good-paying jobs that don't require a degree exist, and people who make that choice don't have to spend paying off student loans, the labor secretary said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Higher education not for everyone, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta says

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2017 7:03 pm

Half of Oregon's retail workers and 64 percent of food service workers receive their schedules less than one week in advance, according to a 2017 study by the Labor Education Research Center of the University of Oregon and Portland State University.

Oregon to require businesses to give workers their schedules sooner

Anna Giaritelli · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

Forecasters had expected claims to rise to a still-ultra-low 235,000 after last week's rock-bottom. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Unemployment beneficiary numbers fall to 43-year low in October

Joseph Lawler · October 26, 2017 12:34 pm

The Republican establishment's insurrection against President Trump may be real, but nationally, Trump has maintained his standing with GOP voters through myriad controversies and legislative failures. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump has won the civil war where it counts — with voters

David M. Drucker · October 26, 2017 4:01 am

Virginia's Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie is ahead of his Democratic opponent Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam by 8 percent, according to a Hampton University Center for Public Policy poll. It's only the second poll in recent months in which Gillespie leads Northam. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

New poll shows Ed Gillespie in the lead in Virginia governor’s race

Diana Stancy Correll · October 25, 2017 9:11 pm