Tag: Jobs

Sen. Tom Harkin's measure would boost today's $7.25 standard in three steps to $10.10 by 2016, with annual increases reflecting inflation after that.. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Minimum wage report puts Democrats on defensive

Alan Fram · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Workers, business owners debate sick-leave mandate

Workers, business owners debate sick-leave mandate

Nick Tabor · February 18, 2014 11:38 pm

Consider the Source

Geoffrey Norman · February 18, 2014 3:09 pm

President Barack Obama meets with African American Civil Rights group leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. From left are, Attorney General, Eric Holder, the president and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Across the table is Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President, National Action Network. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama apologizes to art historian

Brian Hughes · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., works on a Passat sedan. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

After UAW defeat, can GOP fulfill promise of jobs?

Eric Schelzig · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

Daily life a struggle for long-term jobless

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)

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

Joseph Lawler · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid repeatedly promised that the $787 billion economic stimulus program would jolt the economy into sustained growth. (AP File)

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

The new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), building at right, is under construction on the water front of the River Main, in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The ECB is supposed to move into this new building at the end of 2014. The fourth quarter financial growth for 2013 outperformed analysts' expectations and eased some of the pressure on the European Central Bank to loosen its monetary policy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Eurozone recovery accelerates but jobs elusive

Juergen Baetz · February 14, 2014 6:59 pm

The Weather Outside Is Frightful …

The Weather Outside Is Frightful …

Geoffrey Norman · February 14, 2014 4:01 pm

A Little On the High Side

A Little On the High Side

Geoffrey Norman · February 13, 2014 2:09 pm