Billionaire developer Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that the anemic economic growth — just 38,000 new jobs in the month of May — is a “shocking development.”
As the dismal, jobless Obama economy continues, clothing retailer Ralph Lauren has announced a major scaling back of its U.S. operations, with the loss of one thousand jobs and the closure of 50 stores.
In his weekly address released Saturday morning, President Barack Obama credited himself for the economic recovery throughout the country and specifically pointed to Elkhart, IN, where he gave a speech about the economy earlier in the week as an example.
The BLS reports that last month 94,708,000 Americans were neither employed nor made an effort to find employment — due to discouragement, retirement, education, or otherwise — last month.
Most of us recognize that America is being pulled apart, becoming more unequal. We can add that this is not just the old split between workers and non-workers; instead, increasingly, it’s a split among workers.
For the first time in more than 130 years of record-keeping, young adults in the United States are more likely living with mom and dad than they are living with a spouse or partner.
As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company’s CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company’s bathroom policy.
Retail giant Target is losing sales and may be on track for another major stock-drop in the second quarter, analysts say, amid a growing boycott caused by the company’s transgender friendly policies.
Voters yet to make up their minds on the European Union (EU) referendum question are twice as likely to cite immigration as their main concern than the economy, a poll has found. The results could explain why the Leave campaign
In his commencement speech to the graduating class at Howard University last weekend, President Obama excused crime in the African American community as something fostered by an “unfair and unjust” system. He also said successful people were “just lucky” and hinted they didn’t make their success; “It wasn’t nothing you did,” he insisted.
The nation’s faltering economy is pushing voters in three swing states to prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, according to three new polls.
As global instability mounts, and while news broke about the U.S. jobs market posting its weakest growth in three years, President Obama was busy celebrating Star Wars Day by competing in a dance-off featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, a couple of Stormtroopers, and R2-D2.
A Facebook post relating the story of employee at a Krispy Kreme donut shop refusing to serve a police officer in Columbia, South Carolina, has gone viral and provoked a response from the officers involved.
Some activist women are pushing a new workplace initiative called the “period policy,” an employee benefit that would give women time off for their menstrual cycles.
HOUSTON, Texas — A survey from Rice University says that 52 percent of Harris County (Houston area) residents have now declared themselves as Democratic or to lean Democratic. Only thirty percent declare themselves to be Republican.
President Obama is boasting of his economic legacy to the New York Times, asserting that his management of the economy was likely the best in modern history.
President Barack Obama boasted of his legacy during a town hall in Britain, asserting that he single- handedly saved the world during his presidency. “Saving the world economy from a Great Depression — that was pretty good,” Obama bragged when
A backlash is growing against retail giant Target Corp. after its announcement this week that it will allow men who claim to be transgender to use whichever bathroom they choose while shopping or working at their stores. But after two days of a social media firestorm, forces are now gathering to #BoycottTarget over its bathroom policy.
Technology giant Intel announced April 19 it will fire 12,000 skilled U.S.-based professionals — after already swelling its workforce with 14,523 requests in Washington D.C. since 2010 for visas to import foreign professionals through the controversial H-1B and Green Card programs.
Sen. Ted Cruz pitched members of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) for support in his pursuit of the Republican nomination, arguing that Donald Trump as the nominee would ensure an electoral “bloodbath of Walter Mondale-proportions,” a Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress, economic stagnation and a nuclear-armed Iran.
Donald Trump says curbs on remittances sent home by illegal immigrants will pressure Mexico to fund a border wall. A federal program created by President George W. Bush actually helps those illegals transfer their money to Mexico and other countries.
Fiat Chrysler has announced that it is laying off 1,300 workers at its Sterling Heights, Michigan plant.
While the economy added jobs and the national unemployment rate was relatively unchanged, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate and nearly double the national unemployment rate, according to Labor Department data released Friday.
The number of Americans not participating in the workforce in March dipped again compared to the previous month but was still higher than it was a year ago, according to Labor Department data released Friday.
The retail sector is continuing to contract as the U.S. economy continues to struggle with anemic growth in the era of President Barack Obama, resulting in increased store closures.
As the presidential race shifts into high gear, college students and recent graduates are still being largely ignored, except by one candidate whose promises of rainbows and unicorns are dreams – not reality.
The number of Americans not participating in the workforce dipped below 94 million for the first time in six months, according to new jobs data released Friday.
National retailer Sports Authority, once touted as one of Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital “successes,” is announcing the closure of 140 stores, about a third of its outlets.
As proof that you don’t need a college degree to make over $100,000 a year, the waste disposal industry is paying big salaries to a wide range of individuals without a long history of education.
Large denomination physical cash is going to be outlawed if central bankers have their way.
The crashing price of oil may be good for Americans on the road, but in some cases, it is bad for their jobs. As the price of oil collapses, jobs in Oklahoma City are now being lost, as Devon Energy Corp. has announced it is shedding up to 700 jobs.
If the Department of Labor continues to make it difficult for companies to hire American workers, Marco Rubio warned, robots would take over key jobs in the economy.
President Obama appeared at the White House press briefing room to boast that the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9 percent in January, the lowest it has been since February 2008. During his statement, he ridiculed Republican presidential candidates in New
Jailed former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has refused an opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom for back surgery after the government insisted on taking one of his relatives as a “hostage” to make sure he returned.
General Electric will sell off its venerable American home-appliance manufacturing division to China’s Qingdao Haier Co. Ltd., for a reported $5.4 billion.
The nation’s largest retailer has announced that it will be closing 154 stores in the U.S. and laying off as many as 10,000 employees as part of a campaign to close 269 stores worldwide.
President Obama stated that while “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction” workers have been “squeezed” and it’s “harder for a hard-working family to pull itself out of poverty, harder for young people to start on
A Morning Consult poll released on January 12 shows the two biggest things on the minds of registered voters headed into the State of the Union are fighting terrorism and fixing the economy.
Oil crashed by 6.3 percent to $30.98 on January 11, as the price of crude oil continues to fall toward the $25 break-even cost of production that Breitbart News predicted last March.
From The Telegraph: RBS has advised clients to brace for a “cataclysmic year” and a global deflationary crisis, warning that major stock markets could fall by a fifth and oil may plummet to $16 a barrel. The bank’s credit team
