Tag: Jobs

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Illegals 5% of workforce, but take 26% farm, 15% construction jobs

Paul Bedard · November 7, 2016 9:02 am

President Barack Obama reacts to seeing supporters as he walks on stage at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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White House report card: Obama legacy on line in Tuesday’s election

Paul Bedard · November 5, 2016 10:02 am

The Next President and the Economy

Irwin M. Stelzer · November 5, 2016 9:00 am

$A fracking ban would kill thousands of jobs in the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania and millions nationwide, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$ Energy and Environment

Chamber: Ban on fracking would kill 15 million jobs

John Siciliano · November 4, 2016 4:07 pm

Underemployment is at the lowest level of the recovery. It fell to 9.5 percent in October, the lowest rate since April 2008. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Four encouraging charts from Friday’s jobs report

Joseph Lawler · November 4, 2016 3:14 pm

Friday's jobs report fell short of the expectations of private-sector forecasters, which were for 178,000 new jobs. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Slight October jobs miss: Economy adds 161,000 new jobs, unemployment at 4.9 percent

Joseph Lawler · November 4, 2016 12:31 pm

Sanders: Real unemployment still too high

Sanders: Real unemployment still too high

Becket Adams · November 3, 2016 9:14 pm

Forecasters in the private sector had expected jobless claims to drift down to around 255,000. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Jobless claims rose to 265,000 at the end of October

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2016 12:31 pm

"He promotes magical thinking and conspiracy theories over sober assessments of feasible economic policy options," the economists wrote of Trump. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

370 economists: Trump traffics in ‘magical thinking and conspiracy theories’

Joseph Lawler · November 1, 2016 5:29 pm

Trump suggests Bobby Knight to threaten tariffs on companies moving jobs overseas

Joseph Lawler · October 31, 2016 11:28 pm

Worker.gov asks visitors to describe their job, then leads them to a section intended to help them stop violations of labor, civil rights and workplace safety laws and file complaints with the relevant federal agencies. (Screenshot)

White House launches pro-worker website

Sean Higgins · October 28, 2016 4:46 pm

Minimum wage increases on state ballots this election cycle could cost 290,000 jobs, according to a new analysis. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

State minimum wage hikes could cost 290,000 jobs, study finds

Joseph Lawler · October 28, 2016 4:01 am