Unemployment

In his weekly address last Saturday, President Obama described his proposal to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour in language suggesting this would not be a tax increase. (AP Photo)

Columnists

Minimum wage hike attacks young and industrious

February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Three ways that the CBO contradicts Obama on minimum wage

Philip Klein -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Economy

Daily life a struggle for long-term jobless

John Oravecz -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 would increase wages for 16.5 million workers but lead to a loss of about 500,000 jobs, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday afternoon. (AP Photo)

Economy

CBO: $10.10 minimum wage would lower employment by 500k, raise incomes for 16.5 million

Joseph Lawler -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

White House: CBO report on minimum wage costing jobs hike sounds like a freshman economics class

Joel Gehrke -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama is traveling to California on Friday to discuss the severe drought that is threatening farmers' livelihood and meet with the king of Jordan. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Obama White House claims stimulus program that wasn’t ‘shovel-ready’ worked, for free

Mark Tapscott -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Economy

Examiner Editorial: Five years later, Obama’s stimulus remains an extravagant dud

Washington Examiner -

February 18, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama's economists celebrated the fifth anniversary of the 2009 stimulus, even as a new Gallup survey finds that Americans see unemployment as the biggest problem facing the country.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

Beltway Confidential

White House touts stimulus as Americans see ‘unemployment’ as nation’s new top challenge

Joel Gehrke -

February 17, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver in February 2009 before signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Columnists

Five years later: How’s that ‘recovery’ working out?

Michelle Malkin -

February 14, 2014 5:00 am

Rose Capote-Marcus, left, helps Waldemar Vega, 50, with problems he is having receiving his unemployment benefits at WorkForce One, in Davie, Fla. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Economy

Applications for jobless benefits rise to 339,000

Christopher Rugaber -

February 13, 2014 5:00 am

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Tag: Unemployment

Minimum wage hike attacks young and industrious

Three ways that the CBO contradicts Obama on minimum wage

Daily life a struggle for long-term jobless

CBO: $10.10 minimum wage would lower employment by 500k, raise incomes for 16.5 million

White House: CBO report on minimum wage costing jobs hike sounds like a freshman economics class

Obama White House claims stimulus program that wasn’t ‘shovel-ready’ worked, for free

Examiner Editorial: Five years later, Obama’s stimulus remains an extravagant dud

White House touts stimulus as Americans see ‘unemployment’ as nation’s new top challenge

Five years later: How’s that ‘recovery’ working out?

Applications for jobless benefits rise to 339,000

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