Tag: Jobs

Texas unemployment holds at 5.1 percent in July

Texas unemployment holds at 5.1 percent in July

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 8:26 pm

Florida’s unemployment rate remains unchanged

Florida’s unemployment rate remains unchanged

Gary Fineout · August 15, 2014 3:10 pm

Unemployment rate drops in NYC

Unemployment rate drops in NYC

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 10:41 am

File - This Oct. 5, 2012 file photo shows truckers and cars shown driving along California State Route 99 in Fresno, Calif. A new state of California survey ranks Fresno and other communities in the Central Valley as the hardest-hit by pollution, joblessness and other problems. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, file)

Fresno tops list of most disadvantaged areas

Ellen Knickmeyer · August 15, 2014 12:39 am

First Time Claims: Big Miss

First Time Claims: Big Miss

Geoffrey Norman · August 14, 2014 1:01 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, file photo, Carmen Nazario of Albany, N.Y., fills out an employment application during a job fair at the Marriott Hotel in Colonie, N.Y. The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

US jobless aid applications rise to 311,000

Josh Boak · August 14, 2014 12:50 pm

The economic expansion promised by President Obama in 2009 has been exceptionally sluggish in comparison to previous recoveries and remains so nearly six years later with this milestone. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s slow-motion recovery creates a retrograde economy: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 8:24 pm

No Sales

Geoffrey Norman · August 13, 2014 1:06 pm

Some suggest a "Poverty Reduction Opportunity" or PRO wage, could completely replace not only the federal minimum wage, but also the system of tax credits intended to aid poor Americans. (iStock)

Here’s the newest conservative alternative to the minimum wage

Joseph Lawler · August 13, 2014 11:39 am

Watch this map provide a brilliantly simplified perspective of the unemployment rate since 1976

Beltway Confidential

Watch this map provide a brilliantly simplified perspective of the unemployment rate since 1976

Justin Green · August 12, 2014 6:31 pm

There's good news in store for the long-stagnant U.S. labor market, if job listings are any guide. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Here’s the evidence that job creation is set to accelerate for real in 2014

Joseph Lawler · August 12, 2014 3:03 pm

There is a very good reason to believe that extending unemployment benefits to a maximum of 99 weeks in recent years held back the labor supply. (iStock Photo)

Lower benefits, higher jobs — Paul Ryan has it right

Lawrence Kudlow · August 11, 2014 2:57 pm