Tag: Labor

President Barack Obama talks about the economy before announcing that Ashton Carter is his nominee for defense secretary, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The president said the November jobs numbers show the American economy is "making real progress." The government reported Friday that employers added 321,000 jobs in November. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama touts economy, asks Congress to avoid ‘self-inflicted wounds’

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2014 5:38 pm

The U.S. has added more jobs in 2014 than in any year since the dotcom bubble year of 1999.(iStock Photo)

US creates more jobs in 2014 than any year since 1999

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2014 2:28 pm

Jobless claims fall to 297,000

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2014 1:56 pm

Minimum wage savings? What savings?

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2014 10:05 am

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Walker’s reforms bleed Wisconsin unions

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2014 7:16 pm

Facing labor market drought, Obama squeezes the stones for water

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Senate Dems push NLRB nominee through committee

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2014 7:48 pm

Only 615 feds have been laid off since 2010 in RIFs -- "Reductions in Force" -- not including 1,350 from the military.Â (iStock Photo)

Despite dark sequester predictions, most federal agencies are getting bigger

Luke Rosiak · December 2, 2014 3:36 pm

Poll: Americans reject Obama’s immigration order, want illegals out of schools, jobs

Paul Bedard · December 2, 2014 12:12 pm

Labor Department managers paid a contractor to decide what work it would do to get paid. (iStock)

Officials hurriedly gave $200k to plan labor centennial in under a month

Mark Tapscott · December 1, 2014 10:00 am

White House plans to force business to pay more overtime

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2014 10:00 am

Eugene Puryear calls for a living wage and justice for Mike Brown as protesters storm Walmart, in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday, Nov. 24th, 2014, declined to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American man. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Walmart workers scarce at Black Friday anti-Walmart protest in D.C.

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2014 5:10 pm