Tag: Jobs

First Time Claims: Big Miss

First Time Claims: Big Miss

Geoffrey Norman · August 14, 2014 1:01 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, file photo, Carmen Nazario of Albany, N.Y., fills out an employment application during a job fair at the Marriott Hotel in Colonie, N.Y. The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

US jobless aid applications rise to 311,000

Josh Boak · August 14, 2014 12:50 pm

The economic expansion promised by President Obama in 2009 has been exceptionally sluggish in comparison to previous recoveries and remains so nearly six years later with this milestone. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s slow-motion recovery creates a retrograde economy: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 8:24 pm

No Sales

Geoffrey Norman · August 13, 2014 1:06 pm

Some suggest a "Poverty Reduction Opportunity" or PRO wage, could completely replace not only the federal minimum wage, but also the system of tax credits intended to aid poor Americans. (iStock)

Here’s the newest conservative alternative to the minimum wage

Joseph Lawler · August 13, 2014 11:39 am

Watch this map provide a brilliantly simplified perspective of the unemployment rate since 1976

Beltway Confidential

Watch this map provide a brilliantly simplified perspective of the unemployment rate since 1976

Justin Green · August 12, 2014 6:31 pm

There's good news in store for the long-stagnant U.S. labor market, if job listings are any guide. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Here’s the evidence that job creation is set to accelerate for real in 2014

Joseph Lawler · August 12, 2014 3:03 pm

There is a very good reason to believe that extending unemployment benefits to a maximum of 99 weeks in recent years held back the labor supply. (iStock Photo)

Lower benefits, higher jobs — Paul Ryan has it right

Lawrence Kudlow · August 11, 2014 2:57 pm

Construction workers build a commercial complex in Springfield, Ill. (AP/Seth Perlman)

The big omission in Obama’s upbeat economic narrative

Joseph Lawler · August 11, 2014 12:55 pm

Bankers and Their Wounds

Irwin M. Stelzer · August 9, 2014 3:00 am

Initial unemployment claims drop

Initial unemployment claims drop

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2014 2:52 pm

Job seekers check out the opportunities at a Hiring Fair For Veterans in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP/Alan Diaz)

Almost no Americans are getting fired

Joseph Lawler · August 7, 2014 2:21 pm