Tag: Jobs

They would instead get $9.50 an hour, the current minimum wage, plus the tips. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Minnesota eateries push for $15 minimum wage exception

Sean Higgins · March 5, 2017 4:34 pm

Sierra Club asked Inspector General if EPA chief violated the agency's rules for scientific integrity. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Pruitt looks to save key EPA grant programs

John Siciliano · March 2, 2017 6:18 pm

New applications for unemployment benefits fell to 223,000 for the week, well below investors' expectations for 245,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Jobless claims plunge to lowest level since 1973

Joseph Lawler · March 2, 2017 1:35 pm

President Donald Trump arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, for his address to a joint session of Congress. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Trump goes big: Jobs, safety, and U-S-A

Byron York · March 1, 2017 6:34 am

"He has no jobs bill ... so he's gotta talk about the press," Pelosi said of Trump. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Pelosi: Trump picking fights because he has no legislative ideas

Kyle Feldscher · February 26, 2017 3:42 pm

Automation can make U.S. manufacturing more competitive while increasing the number of skilled jobs available for humans. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Beltway Confidential

Robots create American jobs, not destroy them

Rebecca Henderson · February 25, 2017 12:00 am

Private-sector forecasters had anticipated that jobless claims would gently rise from an ultra-low 239,000 the week before to 244,000. (Patti Blake/News Herald via AP)

Jobless claims rise to 244,000, running at lowest in four decades

Joseph Lawler · February 23, 2017 1:32 pm

Walker gained national attention when he took on the unions with right-to-work legislation. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Walker’s proposed welfare reforms are an exciting example for the rest of the country

Tarren Bragdon · February 23, 2017 1:00 am

Conservatives have long blasted Ex-Im as corporate welfare, and during the campaign Trump said it should be abolished. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Better ways to boost manufacturing and jobs

Washington Examiner · February 22, 2017 5:00 am

Can the party, after Trump's win, still fight for the free-market policies that harm the working-class guy with no college education? (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

What if creative destruction buries the working man in the rubble?

Timothy P. Carney · February 22, 2017 3:46 am

Mine workers and leaders from unions representing steelworkers, farmers, teachers, maritime workers and others march in a labor rally along State Route 21 to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Waynesburg, Pa. The coal industry that helped build southwestern Pennsylvania has declined for years. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Where coal is still king

Salena Zito · February 19, 2017 5:03 am

"If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed," said Bill Gates. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think that we'd tax the robot at a similar level." (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Bill Gates proposes ‘some type of robot tax’

Daniel Chaitin · February 18, 2017 3:47 pm