Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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More Good News on Jobs Gives the Fed a Green Light to Start Unwinding
By Lucia Mutikani, ReutersThe 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...
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A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over
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 (...
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Is Wage Growth Finally Coming for American Workers?
By Jeff Cox, CNBCWage 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...
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Here’s Why We’re Not Prepared for the Next Recession
By Mark ThomaWhen 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...
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Low-Paid Workers Are Getting a Pay Bump in 44 States
By Tim Henderson, StatelineIn 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...
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The Serious Problem Lurking in the Jobs Report
By Jeff Cox, CNBCWall 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...
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Why We Hate Our Jobs -- and How We Can Learn to Love Work Again
By Jim CliftonWhile the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years.
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The Fed Raises Interest Rates Again, but Where’s the Inflation?
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Howard Schneider, ReutersThe 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...
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Manufacturing another headache for U.S. economy
By Jonathan Spicer, ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Manufacturing in the United States shrank at its sharpest clip in more than three years last month, a survey showed on Tuesday, the latest sign that the slowing global economy is...
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Lufthansa cabin crew to extend strikes on Friday
By Peter Maushagen and Victoria Bryan, ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa cabin crew will strike throughout Germany on Friday for a full 24 hours, upping the stakes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and...
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Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights as strikes hit
By Peter Maushagen and Victoria Bryan, ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa cancelled hundreds more flights on Tuesday as cabin crew launched a second round of strikes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for...
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Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights as strikes hit
By Peter Maushagen and Victoria Bryan, ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa cancelled hundreds more flights on Tuesday as cabin crew launched a second round of strikes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for...
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Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights as strikes hit
By Peter Maushagen and Victoria Bryan, ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa cancelled hundreds more flights on Tuesday as cabin crew launched a second round of strikes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for...