Tag: Jobs

With the Federal Reserve edging into the spotlight, the Friday jobs report could trigger changes in Americans' financial lives. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Full-time jobs at an all-time high, 173,000 payroll jobs added in August

Joseph Lawler · September 4, 2015 12:33 pm

173,000

Geoffrey Norman · September 4, 2015 12:14 pm

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Eric Rosengren said Tuesday that the recent "slowing of foreign economies, coupled with volatile stock prices and falling commodity prices" is enough to "raise concerns about whether further tightening of labor markets is likely." (Bloomberg file)

Jobs outlook may be harmed by market turbulence, Fed official warns

Joseph Lawler · September 1, 2015 6:05 pm

Â The reduction goals are simply not achievable without closing roughly one-third of America's coal-fired power plants. (AP Photo)Â

The EPA wants to trade your job for 0.01 degrees Celsius

Terry Jarrett · August 21, 2015 2:45 pm

Job seekers get information at a job fair in Sunrise, Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Jobless claims rise to 277,000, but still low

Joseph Lawler · August 20, 2015 12:32 pm

Job growth has weakened in the past two months, with two straight job reports falling short of expectations and raising doubts about the strength of the economy.Â (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Nearly all new ‘good jobs’ are going to college grads

Joseph Lawler · August 17, 2015 4:06 pm

Wal-Mart employee Anna Hines walks through the parking lot of the soon-to-opened Walmart September 21, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Want to increase income inequality? Raise the minimum wage

Jared Meyer · August 14, 2015 3:17 pm

Job growth has weakened in the past two months, with two straight job reports falling short of expectations and raising doubts about the strength of the economy.Â (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Average of jobless claims falls to four-decade low

Joseph Lawler · August 13, 2015 12:36 pm

The Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for June on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Job openings fall from record highs

Joseph Lawler · August 12, 2015 2:29 pm

Report: Obamacare had little effect on jobs in 2014

Robert King · August 10, 2015 5:44 pm

The Gig Is Up

Irwin M. Stelzer · August 8, 2015 3:01 am

The Labor Department releases employment data for July on Friday. (Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Economy adds 215,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent

Sean Higgins · August 7, 2015 12:50 pm