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For the last few months, we’ve heard loud trumpeting about “strong” job reports and signs of economic growth, which the President and his defenders were naturally eager to claim credit for. Not in March.

As a minimum wage increase looms in Seattle, the city is losing restaurants.

A new Gallup poll reveals that Americans think the biggest problem facing the country is not terrorism, healthcare, race relations, or immigration – it’s the federal government.

In a special guest commentary for Forbes Opinion, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) touted his state’s continued economic strength, specifically highlighting Texas’ top ranking for capital investment projects.

In an exposé entitled “Poor Kids of Silicon Valley,” a CNN reporter seems shocked to uncover a high level of child poverty in the affluent Bay Area. CNN concludes, after consulting with “economists and experts,” that a minimum wage hike to $10.10 would significantly help end child poverty. But if CNN actually talked to the most impoverished families, they would have learned that raising minimum wage, like Oakland just did, results in maximizing single young mothers and their children living in poverty.

A new study finds that Hispanic foreigners, both legal and illegal, will account for a large portion of future job growth, forming perhaps as much as 75 percent of the job market by 2020.

After spending trillions of dollars under President Barack Obama, America had fewer full-time jobs in the private sector in January 2015 than we had 10 years earlier under George W. Bush in 2015 .

The much touted “unemployment rate” is a false measure of prosperity. Especially since those on the left seem to be targeting, rather than building up, the Middle Class.

Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO at Gallup, has acknowledged the dirty little secret that the Obama administration and their media lapdogs assiduously attempt to hide: the official unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Department of Labor does not accurately reflect the grim reality of American unemployment.

In 2014, GDP growth bounced back in the spring and summer from a tough winter, but in the fourth quarter, it fell off to 2.6 percent. History indicates the country should be doing a lot better—simply, too many prime working-age Americans are despondent and have permanently dropped out of the workforce.

Despite President Obama’s happy talk, it is clear that America’s recovery from recession isn’t going as well as it needs to.

The biggest casualty of the President’s executive amnesty, aside from the Constitution, has been the American worker. President Obama is handing out millions of work permits to illegal aliens at a time when many Americans are struggling to find a job. It is difficult to grasp why President Obama seems more interested in lending a helping hand to illegal aliens than American workers. Sadly, the issuance of work permits is often an overlooked part of the President’s amnesty.

The International Labour Organization, part of the United Nations, said Tuesday that by 2020 global unemployment will have climbed by 11 million, with over 212 million people unemployed.

Health, immigration and the economy far outstrip other issues in terms of importance to voters, a new poll by YouGov for the Times Red Box has found. However, the pollsters yesterday discovered that issues come second in voters’ minds to

Anyone old enough to recall the Bush presidency might remember that the media used to be very, very concerned about “burger-flipper jobs,” median wages, and career quality. Bush’s fantastic unemployment rates were supposed to be marred with a big fat asterisk because too much job growth was occurring in low-wage, dead-end service industry jobs.