Tag: Jobs

Facebook plans to significantly increase its staff in an effort to monitor content following a slew of violent videos being posted to the social networking website, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Facebook to hire additional 3,000 employees to monitor violent content

Sean Langille · May 3, 2017 6:17 pm

Investors had expected the Fed to keep rates steady, but they have been seeking a better sense of the Fed’s intentions for the rest of the year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Fed holds off on rate hike, but downplays weak first-quarter growth

Joseph Lawler · May 3, 2017 6:00 pm

House passes comp time bill

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2017 10:08 pm

—œI was waiting for the moment when one of the people asking the questions would have said, so exactly how are you going to create more jobs?—? the failed presidential candidate said during an interview. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Clinton suggests debate presidential moderators never asked about jobs (they did)

Becket Adams · May 2, 2017 8:50 pm

U.S. and foreign corporations would invest more in the United States, which would boost our economy, and corporations would avoid and evade taxes less.

The case for slashing corporate tax rates

Washington Examiner Staff · May 1, 2017 4:01 am

Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 prescription delivery company, plans to close a local facility that employs about 200 workers. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Laid-off employees implore Trump: ‘Save our jobs’

Joel Gehrke · April 30, 2017 2:18 am

Low claims for unemployment insurance are a good sign for the economy. They indicate that layoffs are relatively rare. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims rise to 257,000, but workers getting unemployment benefits at a 17-year low

Joseph Lawler · April 27, 2017 12:31 pm

Scott Davis is a public affairs officer for Member Services in Atlanta who has appeared on national television and testified several times in Congress. (Wikipedia Commons)

Veterans Affairs has 346 workers who do only union work

Sean Higgins · April 27, 2017 4:01 am

Former gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, on the Statehouse steps in Montgomery, Ala., where he announced the creation of a nonprofit group called Reform Alabama. (AP Photo/Phillip Rawls)

GOP moves bill letting companies offer paid time off instead of overtime pay

Sean Higgins · April 26, 2017 8:59 pm

At first glance, there's nothing terribly problematic with what President Trump might have told the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Here’s what President Trump wants you to know about his first 100 days

Emily Jashinsky · April 25, 2017 5:23 pm

Among those introducing the legislation will be Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Democrats to introduce $15 minimum wage bill Wednesday

Sean Higgins · April 24, 2017 8:06 pm

Privatizing air traffic control is one of the major priorities for Bill Schuster, R-Pa., and the Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. It is expected to be included in a reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration that must be passed before Sept. 30.

Plan to privatize air traffic control draws worries about costs for small aircraft companies

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 4:01 am