Tag: Jobs

The next time you hear the term 'America First,' ask which America is being promoted. Is it the producers' America? Consumers? Or both?

Beltway Confidential

What’s the meaning of Trump’s ‘America First’?

Bruce Yandle · August 15, 2017 4:08 pm

The president of Alliance for American Manufacturing became the fourth person this week to resign from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul resigns from Trump’s manufacturing council

Anna Giaritelli · August 15, 2017 3:59 pm

Google's new head of diversity has rejected an internal commentary from an employee who suggested women don't get ahead in tech jobs because of biological differences. The dueling memos come as Silicon Valley grapples with accusations of sexism and discrimination and companies like Google, Facebook and Uber say they are trying to change. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Google’s Orwellian firing

Michael Barone · August 11, 2017 3:35 pm

Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014.

Minimum wage advocates scale back their $15 fight

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2017 11:15 pm

President Trump’s 200-day checkup

Washington Examiner Staff · August 10, 2017 5:53 pm

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley's chief of staff and communications director both resigned due to "family concerns." (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, Pool)

Nikki Haley’s chief of staff and communications director resign

Anna Giaritelli · August 10, 2017 2:02 pm

Forecasters had expected jobless claims not to rise much above the previous week's very low level of 240,000. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Jobless claims inch up to 244,000, economy extends best hot streak in 43 years

Joseph Lawler · August 10, 2017 12:32 pm

A number of provisions in the revised bill by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia received majority support. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Most voters support Trump’s push to create merit system for immigrants

Anna Giaritelli · August 9, 2017 3:35 pm

Perhaps the most common response people offer to stories about political correctness and censorship on college campuses is, "Can you imagine what will happen when these students enter the workforce?" With the Google memo, we no longer have to imagine that scenario. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Beltway Confidential

The reaction to the Google memo should worry us much more than the actual memo

Emily Jashinsky · August 8, 2017 5:29 pm

The number of advertised job openings rose to a record-high 6.2 million in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

US job openings hit record high in June

Joseph Lawler · August 8, 2017 2:12 pm

Conservatives criticized Google's decision as an overly sensitive crackdown on free speech and said the move reflected an insular Silicon Valley culture.

Google fires engineer who asserted women not biologically suited for leadership roles

Josh Siegel · August 8, 2017 3:12 am

"If you raise wages, people respond and you can find workers," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari told business people in South Dakota. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Fed official: Businesses claiming worker shortages without raising wages ‘sounds like whining’

Joseph Lawler · August 7, 2017 6:43 pm