Tag: Jobs

Fight for $15, a labor-funded activist group, declared it a huge victory and "the latest in a long string of wins from Seattle to New York to California." (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

D.C. Council approves $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2016 9:59 pm

Lawmakers say President Obama's new rules will force colleges to raise tuition. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP moves to counter overtime rule

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2016 5:40 pm

Workers are shown in the Fusion network's warehouse-turned-news hub known as Newsport, in Doral, Fla. The English-language television network is targeting millennial Hispanics. The network's mix of news, commentary, sports and irreverence is aimed at a generation for which cultural fusion is the norm, and digital media is king. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Washington Secrets

Gallup: Millennials ‘checked out’ at work, 16% ‘out to do damage to employer’

Paul Bedard · June 7, 2016 2:14 pm

Janet Yellen's comments are among the last from Fed officials before their highly anticipated June monetary policy meeting. (AP Photo)

Yellen calls jobs report ‘disappointing’

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2016 4:54 pm

President Obama credited the recovery to "a series of smart decisions early in my presidency." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama brags about economy in appeal to California voters

Anna Giaritelli · June 4, 2016 12:00 pm

Obama report card: C for bad jobs report, Trump tantrum

Paul Bedard · June 4, 2016 11:05 am

President Obama has made traditional employment more and more expensive and, therefore, less and less sustainable. He's a job killer. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)

Obama’s economic boasts go boom — that is, bust!

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2016 4:00 am

Perhaps This Was a Bad Week to Chastise People for Doubting the Economy

Chris Deaton · June 3, 2016 8:30 pm

Fed governor Lael Brainard called the weak May jobs report "sobering." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Fed official sees advantage in waiting to raise rates

Joseph Lawler · June 3, 2016 4:41 pm

Unemployment fell from 5 percent to 4.7 percent in May even as job growth nearly stalled out. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Why unemployment fell in May while job growth stalled

Joseph Lawler · June 3, 2016 2:32 pm

The number of people working part-time because their hours were cut or because they couldn't find a full-time job rose by 468,000 to 6.4 million in May, according to the monthly jobs report. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Involuntary part-time employment soars in May

Joseph Lawler · June 3, 2016 1:24 pm

The Verizon strike cost 35,000 jobs, according to the Bureau, but those jobs will be added back in future months. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Economy disappoints with 38,000 jobs in May, unemployment falls to 4.7 percent

Joseph Lawler · June 3, 2016 12:31 pm