Labor and Allies, Surprised By Obama’s $9 Minimum Wage Proposal, Scramble to Coordinate
• http://inthesetimes.org, BY Mike ElkThe president wants $9, Congressional Democrats want $10.10–but everyone’s optimistic.
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The president wants $9, Congressional Democrats want $10.10–but everyone’s optimistic.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February.
It’s been labeled the worst environmental disaster in world history, and rightfully so, because the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmarish gift that keeps on giving.
The number of jobs in the US grew by 236,000 in February, and the official unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2008, according to the Labor Department’s latest jobs report released Friday.
To help recruiters, a startup called Gild has created a database of four million software developers and rated their work. Could other fields be next?
Today we we get the biggest labor market indicator of the month: February nonfarm payrolls (NFP), due out at 8:30 AM ET.
For years I subscribed to The New York Times online. Then I took the Sunday Times only for a couple of years but they managed to annoy me nearly as much as the daily edition
The ADP jobs report, which comes out two days before the official BLS jobs report, is generally considered to be a preview of the official report
I would hope that all of us agree that the idea of a govt-mandated minimum wage has nothing to do with a free market. That said, I have a couple questions concerning it....
A funny thing happened during the Oscars, but it wasn’t anything that came out of Seth MacFarlane’s mouth.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) say $10.10 is closer to liveable wage
When you have the right tech skills, you can command a great salary.
In his State of the Union speech Barack Obama warmed Democratic hearts by calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, and indexation of the wage to inflation.
President Barack Obama called for raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and warned he’ll use executive powers to get his way on issues from climate change to manufacturing if Congress doesn’t act, laying out an assertive second-term agenda
What kind of personality does it take to work with dead bodies all day?
US firm Las Vegas Sands said on Friday that it will go ahead with the construction of a vast casino project near Madrid which could create up to 200,000 jobs, the Madrid regional government said.
Despite optimism-mongering in the media and in certain quarters of Washington and elsewhere, we’ve had indication after indication in the economic data that whatever lousy progress has been made in nudging up GDP, American workers have not benefitted
Aside from the (false) belief that he had a background working on Wall Street, perhaps the most widely held suspicion about Timothy Geithner is that he was headed to a Wall Street payday once he left the government.
Will a robot take your job? We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.
Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Life in a large organization isn’t always easy for people who want to solve problems. Usually, the issue isn’t coming up with a solution.
A single dad in Culver City, Calif., is begging for work as a lawyer on Craigslist, claiming he is so desperate he's willing to take basically any legal job.
Orwellian: Randal Franzen was 53, unemployed and nearly broke when his brother, a tool designer at Boeing, mentioned that pilots for remotely piloted aircraft – more commonly known as drones – were in high demand.
Texas is one of the largest and most important construction markets in the country. It’s driving the industry at a time when much of the country is still tenuously recovering from the recession. But a recent investigation has uncovered hundreds of
Working at a corporate law firm can be insane and soul-crushing and depressing.
The following debunks conventional non-wisdom from most of the media and academia about the supposed stagnant middle class. Among other facts, it mentions the growing proportion of non-cash pay in the form of benefits that aren't included in governm
America’s two biggest groups of scammers have got to be police officers and firefighters, whose union reps routinely tell Americans that their members put their lives on the line every day simply by slipping into their uniforms.
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Some readers have said that they want good news from me and are tired of hearing about the country being broke and stealing money from the frugal and productive in a futile attempt to stop the fiscal bleeding. Okay, here are two items of good news: