Tag: Jobs

Miss. payrolls rise and unemployment rate falls

Miss. payrolls rise and unemployment rate falls

Jeff Amy · October 21, 2014 3:01 pm

SC jobless rate up to 6.6 percent in September

SC jobless rate up to 6.6 percent in September

Meg Kinnard · October 21, 2014 2:48 pm

FILE - In this June 4, 2014, file photo Labor Secretary Thomas Perez speaks in Washington. Perez sought Monday, Oct. 20 to re-energize President Barack Obama's stalled push for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour and for making paid leave for mothers of newborns more widely available. Speaking at the National Press Club, Perez also suggested that many U.S. workers have failed to benefit from the nation's economic recovery. (AP Photo/Connor Radnovich, File)

Labor Secretary Perez pushes Obama jobs proposals

Tom Raum · October 20, 2014 10:26 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2014 file photo, Freddy Jerez, of Hollywood, Fla., fills out a job application during a job fair in Sunrise. Fla. A quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics released Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 found that only 24 percent of companies increased wages and salaries in the July-September quarter. That's down from 43 percent in the April-June quarter and the first drop after three straight increases. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Survey: Pay raises rarer despite strong US hiring

Christopher Rugaber · October 20, 2014 1:38 pm

A coal-burning energy plant is seen in an aerial view in the early morning hours of July 30, 2013 near Bismarck, N.D. (Andrew Burton/Getty images)

Green space in the heart of the energy boom?

Zack Colman · October 20, 2014 9:00 am

Black Caucus pushes for more minority contracts

Black Caucus pushes for more minority contracts

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 3:01 pm

Alaska jobless rate unchanged from August

Alaska jobless rate unchanged from August

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 9:35 am

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Zogby Report Card: An Ebola mutiny on Obama’s ship

Paul Bedard · October 18, 2014 9:00 am

Lockheed official says ending the Export-Import Bank could boost South Carolina jobs

Beltway Confidential

Lockheed official says ending the Export-Import Bank could boost South Carolina jobs

Timothy P. Carney · October 17, 2014 9:32 pm

Biden: ‘The Middle Class Is Getting Killed’

Biden: ‘The Middle Class Is Getting Killed’

Daniel Halper · October 16, 2014 6:17 pm

This now infamous study by David Card and Alan Krueger did not in fact prove that after a wage hike, employment in the fast-food industry increased more in New Jersey counties than in neighboring Pennsylvania counties. (iStock Photo)

If minimum wage is so great, why cite bogus study?

Larry Elder · October 16, 2014 4:35 pm

FILE - In this July 21, 2011 photo, Sonya Mosey from Altoona, Pa. fills out an employment application for Gillece Services at the Pittsburgh Career Fair, in Pittsburgh. The U.S. Labor Department on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits for the week ending Oct. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

US jobless aid applications fall to 14-year low

Christopher Rugaber · October 16, 2014 2:03 pm