Tag: Jobs

First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell to 294,000 in the week ending Jan. 3. (iStock Photo)

Jobless claims tick down following holidays

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2015 2:18 pm

The senators argued that the current definition of the work week under Obamacare is causing businesses to cut back the hours they give employees to avoid the law's mandates. (iStock)

Senators introduce bill to counter Obamacare’s 40-hour week

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 10:48 pm

From left, Ford plans manager, Phillip Calhoun, President Obama, Ford President and CEO Mark Fields and Bill Ford eye a new Mustang at Ford Michigan Assembly Plant on Wednesday in Wayne, Mich. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama takes victory lap on auto bailout

Brian Hughes · January 7, 2015 10:14 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks about raising wages during the forum AFL-CIO National Summit, Wednesday at Gallaudet University in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Warren: Raising minimum wage is ‘personal’

Sean Higgins · January 7, 2015 5:37 pm

Cap-and-trade programs kill manufacturing jobs, according to new research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Study: Cap-and-trade kills jobs

Jason Russell · January 5, 2015 6:24 pm

Warning: Approach 2015 With Caution

Irwin M. Stelzer · January 3, 2015 2:00 pm

Claims Jumping

Geoffrey Norman · December 31, 2014 2:50 pm

Jobless claims rise to 298,000

Jobless claims rise to 298,000

Joseph Lawler · December 31, 2014 1:49 pm

Confidence on the Rise

Confidence on the Rise

Geoffrey Norman · December 30, 2014 7:33 pm

Voters in five states -- Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota -- approved raising their minimum higher than the federal floor through ballot measures in 2014, while lawmakers in Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia voted to raise theirs. (iStock)

Obama administration praises state minimum wage increases

Sean Higgins · December 30, 2014 5:17 pm

Reason to Be Jolly this Holiday Season

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 27, 2014 12:35 pm

Economic acceleration in 2014 fails to boost Obama’s approval

Economic acceleration in 2014 fails to boost Obama’s approval

Joseph Lawler · December 24, 2014 6:00 pm