Tag: Jobs

Applicants line up at a job fair at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City N.J., on April 11, 2022. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 9 rose by 9,000 to 244,000, up from the previous week's 235,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, July 14, 2022. First-time applications generally reflect layoffs. Analysts had expected the number to remain flat from the previous week.

Jobless claims rise as labor market starts to cool

Zach Halaschak · April 20, 2023 8:31 am

Money on a table.

Ohio chamber opposed to minimum wage amendment

Washington Examiner · April 19, 2023 12:32 pm

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. The congresswoman had called the Irvine Police Department a "disgrace" after it arrested the man she was living with for allegedly assaulting a protester at her town hall event in July 2021.

Katie Porter gets little pity over ‘hard’ congressional job: ‘Resign then’

Heather Hamilton · April 13, 2023 3:29 pm

Small businesses are less optimistic about the future, survey finds

Washington Examiner · April 12, 2023 11:56 am

The clean energy package implements some of the long-time priorities of GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Report: Biden’s energy plan costs jobs, ratepayers

Washington Examiner · April 12, 2023 11:54 am

Beltway Confidential

It’s good for teenagers to have jobs, so why are people freaking out over it?

Timothy P. Carney · April 11, 2023 7:54 pm

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers stand on patrol in the Times Square area of New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015.

New York police officers relocate to Florida

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2023 12:37 pm

The Pennsylvania state capitol building is seen. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Budget talks halftime: Spend money to make money

Washington Examiner · April 9, 2023 12:59 pm

This Friday, May 16 2014 photo shows General Motors' world headquarters in Detroit. U.S. safety regulators fined General Motors a record $35 million Friday for taking at least a decade to disclose defects with ignition switches in small cars that are now linked to at least 13 deaths. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

GM buys out 5,000 workers to avert layoffs

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2023 1:09 pm

President Joe Biden heartily criticized "extreme MAGA Republicans" in a Friday statement reacting to the March jobs report.

Biden flips lukewarm jobs report into attack on ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’

Christian Datoc · April 7, 2023 2:50 pm

Employment growth slows with 236,000 jobs in March

Zach Halaschak · April 7, 2023 12:32 pm

Applicants line up at a job fair at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City N.J., on April 11, 2022. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 9 rose by 9,000 to 244,000, up from the previous week's 235,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, July 14, 2022. First-time applications generally reflect layoffs. Analysts had expected the number to remain flat from the previous week.

Jobless claims far higher than thought, revisions show ahead of March jobs report

Zach Halaschak · April 6, 2023 12:32 pm