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...

Obama pushes Congress on immigration, split emerges

By Matt Spetalnick, Reuters

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Just over a week into his second term, President Barack Obama took his fight for immigration reform to the West on Tuesday and pushed Congress to quickly find a path to...
Financial fears hit consumer confidence in January

By Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer confidence dropped in January to its lowest level in more than a year as Americans were more pessimistic about the economic outlook and their financial prospects,...
Home prices see best yearly gain since 2006

By Leah Schnurr, Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home prices rose in November, climbing more than five percent from a year ago in the biggest increase since August 2006 when the housing market was starting to collapse. Data on...
One Investment that Can Reduce Our Long-Term Debt

By Mark Thoma

Suppose we could enhance our long-run growth prospects, reduce our long-term unemployment problem, and reduce our expected future debt at the same time. Would that be a policy worth pursuing?...
This Shocking Number Could Be Unemployment in the Future

By Business Insider Staff, Business Insider

Are we prepared for a world where 50 to 75 percent of workers are unemployed?

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