Tag: Jobs

Teacher retirement costs are now 11 percent of their total compensation. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Beltway Confidential

Guess how expensive teacher retirement costs are

Jason Russell · June 14, 2016 8:21 pm

Editorial cartoon: Beach bummer

Washington Examiner · June 10, 2016 9:00 pm

Gallup: Trump is the jobs president, 52%-45%

Paul Bedard · June 10, 2016 11:48 am

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., said the Obama administration had blown an opportunity to create a common-sense, bipartisan solution. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Lawmakers spar over new overtime rule

Sean Higgins · June 9, 2016 9:06 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to roll out the plans Thursday, marking the third — and most groundbreaking — installment in his campaign to modernize the military's antiquated bureaucracy. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

National Security

Carter revamps ‘up-or-out’ promotion policy

Jamie McIntyre · June 9, 2016 5:13 pm

Economists had expected jobless claims, which are adjusted for seasonal variations, to edge up from 267,000 the previous week to 270,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Jobless claims drop for fourth straight week to 264,000

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2016 12:32 pm

There were 5.788 million advertised job vacancies in the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, up from 5.67 million the month before and the same peak that was reached in July of last year. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg, File)

Job openings hit record high in April even as hiring dropped

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2016 2:27 pm

Goldman Sachs: Obamacare forcing hundreds of thousands into part-time work

Goldman Sachs: Obamacare forcing hundreds of thousands into part-time work

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2016 12:48 pm

Fight for $15, a labor-funded activist group, declared it a huge victory and "the latest in a long string of wins from Seattle to New York to California." (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

D.C. Council approves $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2016 9:59 pm

Lawmakers say President Obama's new rules will force colleges to raise tuition. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP moves to counter overtime rule

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2016 5:40 pm

Workers are shown in the Fusion network's warehouse-turned-news hub known as Newsport, in Doral, Fla. The English-language television network is targeting millennial Hispanics. The network's mix of news, commentary, sports and irreverence is aimed at a generation for which cultural fusion is the norm, and digital media is king. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Washington Secrets

Gallup: Millennials ‘checked out’ at work, 16% ‘out to do damage to employer’

Paul Bedard · June 7, 2016 2:14 pm

Janet Yellen's comments are among the last from Fed officials before their highly anticipated June monetary policy meeting. (AP Photo)

Yellen calls jobs report ‘disappointing’

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2016 4:54 pm