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...

HSBC China services PMI recovers to 54.3 after one-year low

By Lucy Hornby, Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's services sector rebounded in September after its growth hit a one-year low in August, according to a private sector survey on Monday that follows last week's much more...
Three Fiscal Flashpoints that Can Cause a Recession

By Douglas Holtz-Eakin, The Fiscal Times

Policymakers, business, markets, and households alike are more aware than ever of the dangers posed by the federal government’s fiscal affairs. Indeed, there are three flashpoints that pose distinct...
Foxconn denies China iPhone plant hit by strike

By Reuters

TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Foxconn, the Taiwanese made-to-order electronics giant that assembles Apple Inc's products, denied reports that a plant in China was crippled by a strike, saying on...
Unexpected Job Numbers Reflect Demographic Destiny

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

While much of the coverage of today’s September jobs report has centered on its impact on the presidential election, the data behind the surprising drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent also...
Surprise! Unemployment Falls to Near 4-Year Low

By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

The unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 7.8 percent in September, reaching its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office and providing a boost to his re-election bid.

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