Tag: Jobs

The Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for June on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Job openings fall from record highs

Joseph Lawler · August 12, 2015 2:29 pm

Report: Obamacare had little effect on jobs in 2014

Robert King · August 10, 2015 5:44 pm

The Gig Is Up

Irwin M. Stelzer · August 8, 2015 3:01 am

The Labor Department releases employment data for July on Friday. (Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Economy adds 215,000 jobs in July, unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent

Sean Higgins · August 7, 2015 12:50 pm

Global stock markets were muted Thursday, as jitters about upcoming U.S. jobs data kept buying appetite in check. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Jobless claims beat expectations at 270,000

Joseph Lawler · August 6, 2015 12:34 pm

Nobody really knows what a $15 minimum would do to the economy. Past increases in the federal minimum wage were incremental. There is no precedent for raising it to the level being discussed, more than double its current rate, economists note. (AP photo)

The great unknown: The $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2015 4:01 am

Help Wanted

The Scrapbook · August 3, 2015 4:00 am

WEX Week Ahead: Congress feels the heat at home

WEX Week Ahead: Congress feels the heat at home

Lisa Ruhl · July 31, 2015 7:39 pm

The Labor Department releases the employment cost index for the second quarter of 2015, a measure of wage and benefit growth, on Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pay growth disappoints in second quarter

Joseph Lawler · July 31, 2015 12:38 pm

President Obama walks across the tarmac with Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine. (AP Photo/Joel Page)

Former congressman nominated to Labor Department post

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 10:17 pm

The funds were included as part of $175 million in grants issued "intended to help grow the middle class."Â (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Minorities want Obama to focus on jobs, not climate change: Poll

John Siciliano · July 30, 2015 3:56 pm

Why the first quarter economic slump was revised away

Joseph Lawler · July 30, 2015 1:14 pm