Monday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) questioned economic policy that pays people from government coffers as there are jobs available, despite the country’s months-long bout with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said that the Biden administration inherited high unemployment rates for blacks and women.
Joe Biden struggled to push back against the idea that his expanded unemployment benefits were to blame.
Many states suspended job search requirements during the pandemic and only some have reinstated them.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) argued that the jobs numbers “are a reminder that we need universal childcare in this country” and that childcare should be “part of our basic infrastructure.” Warren said, “The numbers are a
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on Congress Friday to terminate the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits after Joe Biden’s poor April job report.
The president dismissed media commentary pointing out the disparity between the estimated job creation numbers and the jobs actually created in April.
Enhanced jobless benefits are likely to depress employment without raising wages for workers.
President Joe Biden blamed former President Donald Trump on Friday for a devastating job numbers report in April.
President Joe Biden defended his decision to extend increased checks to unemployed workers, despite a crushing jobs report showing unemployment rose last month for the first time since April 2020.
The number of women working shrank in April, a surprising development in a rapidly growing economy.
Floridians who receive unemployment benefits will soon have to show proof that they are job-hunting, according to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The progress on jobless claims may hurt the Biden administration’s efforts to pass an infrastructure bill, which it has dubbed a “jobs plan.”
The GOP governor in Montana is tackling the labor shortage by offering “return to work” bonuses of $1,200 to replace unemployment checks.
A dozen restaurants in the Central West End area of St. Louis hosted a job fair Monday in the Chase Park Plaza ballroom but did not see many applicants come through the door, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
CEO of Landry’s and owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets Tilman Fertitta said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” that businesses are having a hard time finding enough workers because enhanced unemployment benefits Congress passed to combat the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy are now discouraging out-of-work Americans from taking jobs.
Economists had expected claims to rise to 615,000.
Former President George W. Bush says the United States needs more foreign workers to take American jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans are unemployed.
President Joe Biden’s administration is giving businesses 22,000 more foreign H-2B visa workers to hire for working class jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans remain jobless.
Young people were hardest hit by corona restrictions that closed bars, restaurants and hotels, according to the latest government statistics.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that Syrian refugees from the area around Damascus should return home because Denmark has assessed the region to be safe.
Around 675,000 migrants living in Sweden are either on welfare benefits or are not able to support themselves through work, according to statistics from the Swedish Parliamentary Investigative Service (RUT).
Black unemployment is up. Gasoline prices are up. Food prices are up.
Super-charged unemployment benefits may finally be starting to bite.
The median forecast was for 658,000 and an unemployment rate of 6.0 percent.
President Joe Biden has restarted a number of visa programs, allowing United States companies to more readily outsource jobs even as about 17 million Americans remain jobless.
If you look beneath the headline numbers, the total number of Americans claiming jobless benefits rose in early March.
New weekly jobless claims fell to 684,000 for the week that ended March 20, the Department of Labor said Thursday.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing national lockdown measures have cost the British economy some £251 billion over the past year, a report has found.
The illegal migrants brought to the United States by their illegal migrant parents “are true and legitimate heirs … of our founders,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA) said in a Thursday speech on the House floor.
New weekly jobless claims rose to 770,000 for the week that ended March 13 the Department of Labor said Thursday.
Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast a decline to 700,000.
It will be harder to get people back to work because incomes will be very high without work.
Nearly 17 million Americans remain unemployed in the United States economy, though all want full-time jobs, as President Joe Biden’s administration looks to pack the labor market with foreign workers.
While unemployment fell in February among Asians and Hispanics, and dipped slightly for whites, it rose for blacks, according to data released Friday.
Democrats have agreed to extend enhanced unemployment insurance through September with a smaller boost to benefits, according to multiple media reports.
The U.S. economy created 379,000 jobs in February, far more than expected.
Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are collecting unemployment. Yet businesses across the U.S. tell Fed officials they cannot find enough workers.
President Joe Biden has restarted allowing companies to fill scarce U.S. jobs with foreign workers after a major lobbying effort by big business interests, even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.
The unemployment rate rose for a six straight month in December as renewed coronavirus restrictions shut down most businesses.
A coalition of business groups led by the United States Chamber of Commerce are lobbying President Joe Biden’s administration to allow them to import foreign workers even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.
