Tag: Jobs

Our Decimated Labor Force

Irwin M. Stelzer · June 14, 2014 3:00 am

FILE - In this May 16, 2014 file photo, shoppers walk past a now hiring sign at a Ross store in North Miami Beach, Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Applications for US jobless aid up modestly

Josh Boak · June 12, 2014 12:51 pm

Liberal policy group can’t sue over jobs agency

Liberal policy group can’t sue over jobs agency

JULIE CARR SMYTH · June 10, 2014 7:54 pm

Virginia GOP Senate candidate Ed Gillespie watches as state Del. Barbara Comstock, running for a House seat, signs his campaign RV.

Washington Secrets

Virginia’s Ed Gillespie says his Senate victory would give GOP control

Paul Bedard · June 10, 2014 7:41 pm

In this May 16, 2014 photo, Jessica Bowen, left, talks with Sandra Modena, Sales Manager at Trillium Staffing, at the annual veterans job fair aboard the LST in downtown Muskegon, Mich. The Labor Department issues its April report on job openings and labor turnover on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Madelyn Hastings) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

US businesses ramped up job searches in April

Christopher Rugaber · June 10, 2014 3:44 pm

There were 4.46 million job openings on the last business day of April, according to the BLS's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, the most since September of 2007. (AP Photo)

Job openings surge to pre-recession levels in April

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2014 3:09 pm

In this June 6, 2014 photo, cook Kim Jarjabka send out two lunch orders at Coppertop restaurant in Valley City, Ohio. According to research by the National Employment Law Project, restaurants and bars, temporary staffing, and retail account for more than one-third of the job gains in the current recovery. Wages in these sectors average less than $13.34 an hour. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

US job market recovers losses yet appears weaker

JOSH BOAKCHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER · June 8, 2014 6:02 pm

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Studies ranking states’ business climates are all over the map

Jim Pettit · June 8, 2014 5:08 am

A job seeker fills out an application during a career fair at the Southeast Community Facility Commission on May 21, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Is the unemployment rate really 6.3 percent? Or is it 12.2 percent?

Sean Higgins · June 7, 2014 7:32 pm

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: Obama facing ‘the music’ over Bowe Bergdahl fiasco

Paul Bedard · June 7, 2014 10:00 am

Obama’s Ambitious Free Trade Proposals Are Dead

Irwin M. Stelzer · June 7, 2014 3:00 am

FILE - This March 4, 2013 file photo shows a sign for Wall Street on the side of building near the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures rose Friday, June 6, 2014, after the government said U.S. employers hired at a good clip for the fourth month in a row. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Stock market heads higher after jobs report

Matthew Craft · June 6, 2014 9:12 pm