Employment

Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States

By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...
Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform

By David Morgan, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday gained crucial support for a vote on a budget resolution that is vital to President Donald Trump's hopes of signing sweeping tax reform...
More Good News on Jobs Gives the Fed a Green Light to Start Unwinding

By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six-month low last week, pointing to a further tightening in the labor market that could encourage the Federal Reserve to lay...
A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over

By Jacqueline Leo

A new report by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has good news: "With [yesterday's] employment report, we can report that the national jobs gap relative to November 2007 has closed (...
Is Wage Growth Finally Coming for American Workers?

By Jeff Cox, CNBC

Wage growth has been the missing link throughout a period that has produced more than 18.5 million new jobs, including 209,000 in July. But Amy Glaser, who helps run Adecco Staffing, believes the...

Here’s Why We’re Not Prepared for the Next Recession

By Mark Thoma

When will the next recession hit the economy? Nobody knows for sure, but we can be certain that sooner or later the economy will experience another downturn. When that happens, will monetary and...
Low-Paid Workers Are Getting a Pay Bump in 44 States

By Tim Henderson, Stateline

In 44 states, jobs paying roughly $30,000 were among those that got the largest salary bumps since 2010 — evidence that the steady but modest economic growth of the past half-decade may be reaching...
The Serious Problem Lurking in the Jobs Report

By Jeff Cox, CNBC

Wall Street exhaled heavily Friday on news that job creation in both the public and private sectors accelerated and defied some of the recent speculation that the economy had reached full employment...
Why We Hate Our Jobs -- and How We Can Learn to Love Work Again

By Jim Clifton

While the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years.
The Fed Raises Interest Rates Again, but Where’s the Inflation?

By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Howard Schneider, Reuters

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in three months, citing continued U.S. economic growth and job market strength, and announced it would begin cutting its...

Exclusive: GM plans to move some Chevy Equinox assembly to Mexico -source

By Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert, Reuters

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers on Wednesday trumpeted the news that production of the Cadillac SRX would be shifted from Mexico to Tennessee, but Reuters has...
Malaysia police arrest 42 foreigners after riot at export factory

By Trinna Leong, Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police have arrested 42 men after a riot by up to 1,000 mostly Nepalese workers sparked fires and destroyed parts of an electronics export factory, highlighting...
After disasters, stricken Malaysia Airlines staff brace for job cuts

By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah and Siva Govindasamy, Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines <MASM.KL> flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with...
Time to Focus on Underemployment, Not Unemployment

By Rob Garver

The monthly freakout among the financial press about jobs numbers needs to end. The trend is clear. The U.S. economy is growing. The real question is whether it’s growing the way we want it to.
The Threat That Could Scar the Economy for Decades

By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal Times

Despite some signs of improvement, the U.S. economy remains far from healed. And the longer the slump persists, the nastier the lingering scar that will mar the economy for decades to come.

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