Even As Unemployment Drops, Those Who Find Jobs Can’t Get Enough Hours
Nora Goebelbecker is an intern with the Economic Policy Team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. On Friday, the monthly jobs report showed that 162,000 jobs were added in July, pushing the...
View ArticleBoomtown On The Great Barrier Reef: How Fossil Fuels Turned A Sleepy...
One of the LNG plants being constructed on Curtis Island. GLADSTONE, AUSTRALIA — There aren’t many cruises that feature a dolphin swimming with her calf, 4.5 million tons of coal stockpiles, the...
View ArticleFormer McDonald’s CEO Claims Raising The Minimum Wage Would Kill Jobs
Appearing on Fox News, former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi told host Neil Cavuto that raising the minimum wage, as many fast food workers are demanding, would “absolutely” kill jobs and hurt businesses....
View ArticleOne In Five Black And Hispanic Workers Are Underemployed
CREDIT: FrontPage Mag About one in five black and Hispanic workers, or 18.9 percent of Hispanic workers and 22.4 percent of black workers, are underemployed, meaning that they are either jobless and...
View ArticleDefense Department Likely To Fire Thousands If Sequestration Continues In 2014
The Defense Department is facing the possibility of firing at least 6,272 employees if the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration aren’t reversed, according to a planning...
View ArticleIt’s Not The Fault Of The Long-Term Unemployed That They Can’t Find Jobs
Credit: Associated Press More than four million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer, putting them in the category of the long-term unemployed, and they make up nearly 40 percent of all...
View ArticleEconomy Added 169,000 Jobs In August; Unemployment Down To 7.3 Percent
The economy added 169,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate down to 7.3 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 180,000 jobs to be...
View ArticleCharts: Young Adults Experienced A Lost Decade In Employment Since 2000
Young people entering the workforce today are less likely to be employed and earn less than the young people of two decades ago, according to a new report from Georgetown University. Young adults have...
View ArticleJobless Claims Spike As Government Shutdown Cripples Thousands Of Contractor...
CREDIT: AP Claims for unemployment benefits climbed to their highest level since March last week, in part because of jobs lost in the government shutdown. According to the Labor Department, about...
View ArticleScott Walker Creates Phantom Jobs To Boost Aides’ Pay
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), who has so far fallen well short on his promise of 250,000 new jobs by 2015, at the same time has created phantom jobs to boost his employees’ pay, including some top...
View ArticleEconomy Added 148,000 Jobs In September; Unemployment Fell To 7.2 Percent
The economy added 148,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 7.2 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 185,000 jobs to be...
View ArticleShutdown And Debt Ceiling Fights Cost 120,000 Jobs In Two Weeks
The fights over the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling reduced economic output by 0.25 percent in the fourth quarter of this year and cost about 120,000 private sector jobs in the first...
View ArticleCNBC Host Suggests Playing ‘Some Mexican Music’ During Critical Report On Ted...
CNBC’s Squawk Box blamed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for Tuesday’s disappointing jobs numbers, predicting that his effort to shut down the federal government depressed job creation and added to growing...
View ArticleAmerican Schools Are Missing 389,000 Teachers
CREDIT: AP Over the last five years, the number of students enrolled in K-12 schools has gone up by 1.6 percent, and to keep up with that growth, the country would have needed to hire an additional...
View ArticleCoal Has Its Day On Capitol Hill
CREDIT: Shutterstock U.S. coal interests had a big day on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. But instead of making their case, they revealed that President Obama’s so-called “War on Coal” is not much of a war....
View ArticleEconomy Added 204,000 Jobs In October; Unemployment Rose To 7.3 Percent
The economy added 204,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 125,000 jobs to be...
View ArticleCareer Training For The Unemployed Is Getting Suffocated By Sequestration
Credit: Associated Press Haphazard cuts to already-underfunded job training programs are preventing community organizations from providing local companies with the workers they need, Focus: HOPE’s...
View ArticleUpgrading Existing Pipelines Would Create More Jobs Than Building Keystone...
Replacing infrastructure on existing water and natural gas pipelines could provide more short- and long-term jobs than building Keystone XL would, according to a new report. The report, published by...
View ArticleA Record Number Of Workers Worry About Losing Their Jobs
CREDIT: Shutterstock More than six in ten workers say they worry they will lose their jobs, a record not seen since the 1970s, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and Miller Center. About...
View ArticleThe Real People Whose Lives Will Be Turned Upside Down If Congress Doesn’t...
Lillian Humphrey is 62 and has worked for at least 40 of those years. But she had to leave a job at the beginning of the year after she was diagnosed with osteoporosis and could no longer lift the...
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