Tag: Jobs

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Jobless claims fall to 265,000, lowest level since 2000

Joseph Lawler · January 29, 2015 2:01 pm

Mitt Romney speaks to fellow Republicans at a dinner during the Republican National Committee's Annual Winter Meeting aboard the USS Midway on January 16, 2015 in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney hits Hillary Clinton in speech

Rebecca Berg · January 28, 2015 10:31 pm

Soft Durables

Geoffrey Norman · January 27, 2015 4:48 pm

WH: Executive Amnesty Raises U.S. Wages 65 Cents a Day

Jeryl Bier · January 27, 2015 12:01 pm

President Obama speaks during a visit to the University of Kansas Thursday in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Obama’s immigration action carries limited economic appeal

Brian Hughes · January 27, 2015 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Study: 60 percent of 2014 job growth caused by expiration of unemployment benefits

Jason Russell · January 26, 2015 6:26 pm

A new study attributes the 2014 jobs boom to the expiration of long-term unemployment benefits in late December 2013. (iStock)

End of emergency unemployment insurance boosted 2014 job growth

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2015 5:59 pm

Employee Shantel Burris prepares patient meals at Montefiore Medical Center's Wakefield Campus in the Bronx borough of New York. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

A closer look at sick leave

Sean Higgins · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Union membership on the decline

Jason Russell · January 23, 2015 5:53 pm

Union membership continues three-decade slide

Sean Higgins · January 23, 2015 5:31 pm

A Permanently Anemic Recovery?

A Permanently Anemic Recovery?

Geoffrey Norman · January 21, 2015 6:09 pm

In an executive order last February, President Obama called for the Labor Department to develop new regulations that would effectively force businesses to pay workers more overtime. (Bloomberg)

Obama tells Congress: You try living on the minimum wage

Sean Higgins · January 21, 2015 4:12 am