Tag: Jobs

Will the Economists Who Liked Hillary Now Turn Against Her?

Geoffrey Norman · October 13, 2015 8:14 pm

How to Succeed in the Hinterland

Ike Brannon · October 12, 2015 4:00 am

How Hillary Just Made Obama’s Job a Lot Harder

Irwin M. Stelzer · October 10, 2015 3:00 am

Narayana Kocherlakota, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, saidÂ "the lesson of 2014 is clear: We can do better."Â (AP Photo/John Locher)

Fed official: No rate hike until 2017

Joseph Lawler · October 8, 2015 6:08 pm

The U.S. Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits during the week ending Oct. 3 on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims fall by more than expected to 263,000

Joseph Lawler · October 8, 2015 12:31 pm

President Obama stops to pose for a photograph with Terrence Wise, right, and Wise's mom Joann Wise, center, during the White House Summit on Worker Voice, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama takes credit for local minimum wage increases

Sean Higgins · October 7, 2015 10:07 pm

As of September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the U.S. unemployment rate is 5.1 percent. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Lawmakers seek reforms to unemployment data

Curt Mills · October 7, 2015 9:22 pm

"Collective bargaining is a win-win solution," said Labor Secretary Tom Perez. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

White House promotes unions as economic solution

Sean Higgins · October 7, 2015 5:05 pm

In this Aug. 1, 2012 photo, stylist Cliff Freeman braids the hair of Danielle Maddox, 25, at Maxine salon's Braid Bar in Chicago. (AP Photo/Caryn Rousseau)

Braiding without a license: A crime in Texas

Sean Higgins · October 6, 2015 11:17 pm

K Street Republicans such as Tennessee's Stephen Fincher are teaming up with Nancy Pelosi and the White House this week to try and revive Ex-Im. (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Export-Import Bank’s job-loss fables

Timothy P. Carney · October 6, 2015 10:17 pm

Democrats, combined with the GOP support, will produce more than the 218 signatures needed to push the bill that would revive the Export-Import Bank to the floor for a vote in late October. (AP Photo)

The consequences of abolishing the Export-Import Bank

Stephen Aaron · October 6, 2015 4:01 am

Jobs up only for immigrants, +14,000, down 262,000 for ‘native-borns’

Jobs up only for immigrants, +14,000, down 262,000 for ‘native-borns’

Paul Bedard · October 3, 2015 1:59 am