Tag: Jobs

Private-sector forecasters had projected about 260,000 new claims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Jobless claims plummet to 235,000 to end 2016

Joseph Lawler · January 5, 2017 1:32 pm

Unfortunately for France, reality can be a harsh master. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Beltway Confidential

With after-work email ban, France reaches peak socialism

Tom Rogan · January 5, 2017 3:58 am

President-elect Trump is also playing tough with companies doing business with the federal government. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Trump talks tough on trade, Dems, business listen

W. James Antle III · January 4, 2017 4:55 am

Businesses hope the Trump administration will repeal burdensome federal regulations. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Will Trump undo the federal rules that strangle businesses?

William Perry Pendley · January 3, 2017 8:25 pm

Ford Motor Company is canceling plans to build a new $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and is instead investing $700 million in a Michigan plant extension. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ford won’t build Mexican plant, in ‘vote of confidence’ for Trump policies

Kyle Feldscher · January 3, 2017 4:21 pm

There are several aspects of the Obama administration that deserve praise from across the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

5 things Obama did right (from a conservative perspective)

Justin Haskins · January 2, 2017 7:00 pm

Pence’s key to jobs, innovation may hinge on subsidies

John Siciliano · January 2, 2017 5:01 am

So you want to join the Trump Administration? Be a special assistant to a Cabinet secretary? Carry a briefcase in the White House? (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger)

Memo to the young DC job seeker

Hugh Hewitt · January 1, 2017 10:00 pm

New poll finds only 1 percent of Russians approve of U.S. leadership and less than 10 percent of people worldwide believe they have a "great job." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Beltway Confidential

What people around the world are thinking, according to Gallup

Becket Adams · December 30, 2016 5:38 pm

Considering the incoming president's penchant for exaggerations and flat-out lies, this simply won't do. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Beltway Confidential

Media must be more careful when parroting Trump claims

Becket Adams · December 30, 2016 12:43 am

He was criticized for asking the Labor Department to allow more foreign workers at his vineyard. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump brings out his simple rules: Buy and hire American

Kyle Feldscher · December 29, 2016 5:44 pm

Private-sector forecasters had expected jobless claims to fall to 262,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Jobless claims drop to 265,000

Joseph Lawler · December 29, 2016 1:31 pm