Tag: Jobs

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. answers a question during a House GOP leadership news conference, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

House Republicans want to be champions of the middle class

Susan Ferrechio · May 2, 2015 3:53 pm

Zogby Presidential Report Card: Pressure on first black president over race

Paul Bedard · May 2, 2015 11:00 am

Got Those Cold-Weather Economic Blues

Got Those Cold-Weather Economic Blues

Geoffrey Norman · April 30, 2015 8:09 pm

Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 15 years

Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 15 years

Joseph Lawler · April 30, 2015 12:50 pm

White House downplays concerns about slow economic growth

White House downplays concerns about slow economic growth

Brian Hughes · April 29, 2015 6:34 pm

Businesses are saying that they are having more trouble finding qualified workers. (iStock Photo)

Wanted: Qualified workers

Joseph Lawler · April 27, 2015 9:00 am

Yellen and company will have to decide if moderation could turn into an outright slowdown. (AP Photo)Â

Fed to weigh whether recovery is still in place

Joseph Lawler · April 26, 2015 9:00 am

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

Federal labor panel tells Kentucky court to scrap local right-to-work laws

Sean Higgins · April 25, 2015 4:35 pm

The authors of the Hamilton Project write that workers without bachelor's degrees "have been movingÂ away from traditional, blue-collar, middle-paying jobs...to lower-paying service jobs." (AP Photo)Â

Men without college degrees doing worse than in 1990

Joseph Lawler · April 20, 2015 9:45 pm

Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. appear to be losing support among people living near the project's construction route. (AP Photo)

New study finds growing Keystone support among liberals living near project

Mark Tapscott · April 18, 2015 10:38 am

Reporters and photographers try to get a glimpse of Congressional leaders as they arrive at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the fiscal cliff. Two of the five worst jobs of the year involve journalism: broadcaster and newspaper reporter, according to a new report from CareerCast.com. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Where to work — or not — in America in 2015

Kelly Cohen · April 14, 2015 7:54 pm

While the National Labor Relations Board has five members, the person leading the charge is its general counsel, Richard Griffin.

NLRB’s Griffin pushes the envelope in labor law

Sean Higgins · April 13, 2015 9:00 am