Tag: Jobs

Big ideas: On North Korean loyalty, streetcars and missing workers

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

In November, 67.8 million women were working in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 122,000 fewer than at the peak of the expansion, which officially tipped into recession in December 2007. Women are likely to make up that gap in the next few months. (File photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Jobs recovery going better for women

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

A December Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 63 percent of Americans would favor raising the minimum wage from its current $7.25 hourly rate to $10.10, the amount in a bill introduced by Democrats Tom Harkin of Iowa in the Senate and George Miller of California in the House.

Support grows for hike in minimum wage

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

Jobless Claims

Geoffrey Norman · December 12, 2013 1:56 pm

In this Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, photo, a help wanted sign is posted on the front window of a clothing boutique in Los Angeles. (AP File)

US job openings reach 5-year high

Washington Examiner · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

Fed’s James Bullard: Stimulus tapering more likely as labor market improves

Fed’s James Bullard: Stimulus tapering more likely as labor market improves

Washington Examiner · December 9, 2013 5:00 am

Thorns Among the Roses

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 7, 2013 5:00 am

Unemployment Rate: 7.0 Percent

Unemployment Rate: 7.0 Percent

Daniel Halper · December 6, 2013 1:31 pm

FILE- In thisTuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, a covered vehicle sits in part of the new paint shop at Chrysler's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. The Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the July-September quarter of 2013 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Analyst forecast that third-quarter growth will be revised to a 3.1 percent annual rate, faster than the initial estimate of 2.8 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Solid November jobs report could give economy jolt

Josh Boak · December 6, 2013 5:15 am

U.S. labor markets continued to show resilience in November, adding 203,000 jobs as the unemployment rate fell from 7.3 percent to 7.0 percent. (AP Photo)

203,000 jobs added in November, unemployment falls to 7.0 percent as labor markets show resilience

Joseph Lawler · December 6, 2013 5:00 am

Demonstrators rally for better wages outside a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Demonstrations planned in 100 cities are part of push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 to $15. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Beltway Confidential

Reality-checking Obama’s minimum wage gambit

Charles Hoskinson · December 6, 2013 5:00 am

Jobless rate now at 7 percent, the level Ben Bernanke said would mean the end of quantitative easing

Joseph Lawler · December 6, 2013 12:00 am