Tag: Jobs

Grain storage bins on a rural highway in Ottumwa, Iowa. Ottumwa has about 1,000 unemployed people — those seeking work, but out of a job. That's an unemployment rate of about 8.5 percent, nearly double the national average. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Will refugees displace native workers?

Timothy P. Carney · February 3, 2017 3:18 pm

Job creation in January proved stronger than expected. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

First jobs report of Trump era: 227,000 new jobs, unemployment 4.8 percent

Joseph Lawler · February 3, 2017 1:31 pm

Business forecasters had expected jobless claims to ease back down to around 254,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Jobless claims drop to 246,000 in first week of Trump administration

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2017 1:31 pm

The new wage floors include steps on the way to $15-an-hour minimum wages in California and New York. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Study: 2017 minimum wage hikes will cost 383,000 jobs by 2020

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2017 10:00 am

White House had canceled a trip by Trump to Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Grant Hindsley, File)

Trump to meet with Harley-Davidson executives in Washington

Sarah Bedford · February 1, 2017 7:31 pm

Rep. Gerry Connolly reintroduced legislation aimed at giving federal workers a 3.2 percent pay raise. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Democrat wants 3.2 percent pay hike for federal workers

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2017 1:29 pm

Starbucks plans to hire 10,000 refugees at its locations around the world in the next five years, CEO Howard Schultz announced during the uproar over President Trump's ban on Syrian refugees entering the country. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Starbucks plans to hire 10,000 refugees in stores around the world

Kyle Feldscher · January 30, 2017 1:24 pm

Conservative groups rallied Monday to support President Trump's Labor Secretary-designate Andy Puzder with a letter urging the Senate to confirm him as quickly as possible. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Conservative groups urge Puzder’s confirmation for Labor secretary

Sean Higgins · January 30, 2017 5:01 am

President thinks Labor Dept. should use rate that includes people who are not looking for jobs but who might. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Trump mulls changing official unemployment rate

Sean Higgins · January 29, 2017 5:00 am

(AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Jobless claims are running at a 44-year low

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2017 1:32 pm

Trump's focus on creating jobs, said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Trump’s talk of voter fraud is a “distraction,”GOP senator says

Nicole Duran · January 25, 2017 10:54 pm

It is highly unlikely the administration will support the overtime rule. (iStock photo)

Trump court filing could be end of Obama overtime rule

Sean Higgins · January 25, 2017 8:53 pm