Tag: unemployment

Last year, before losing the White House to Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump warned: "If he gets in, you will have a depression the...

Remember just before the new year when Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?” Basically, it was the tax bill that handed $1.5 trillion...

What if the federal government were the employer of last resort? In other words, when jobs are scarce or exploitative, the government steps in with...

For almost a quarter-century, a fringe charismatic church in the North Carolina foothills has been under fire for abusive and cultish practices. But it...

In January, Finland began giving its citizens a universal basic income of roughly $500 a month, and will continue to do so for two...

Donald Trump spent most of Friday beating his chest and yelling to the heavens over news that the economy added 235,000 jobs in February....

The first monthly jobs report under President Donald Trump was released this morning. The US added 235,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate...

The national jobs report for November is in. We have added 178,000 new jobs since the election. The unemployment rate has dropped to 4.6...

When Barack Obama inherited the presidency in 2008, America’s economy was in a tailspin. The country was losing 800,000 jobs each month. The unemployment...

Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is shaking his head at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, giving us another reason to believe everything Trump says...

We have witnessed a very exciting event this week. The Democratic Party has nominated its first female candidate for president. She gave a powerful...

It's become common knowledge that churches operate like businesses, but enjoy a Medici-like perk of not having to pay taxes like other things that...

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans are set to lose their food stamp benefits in the upcoming weeks, as harsh new...

During a speech on the subject of workers and tax reform, Hillary Clinton laid out a plan to punish companies that move overseas, yet...

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Mark Twain The GOP has been stupidly attacking U.S. unemployment numbers for years, beginning...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on Monday that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will cost $1.35 trillion, which is 20 percent...

This is a great resource that I stumbled onto at one of my favorite websites, Just English. 1. The Unemployed Millionaire: Escape the Rat Race, Fire...

According to a press release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214,000 jobs were added by the U.S. economy, making the unemployment rate fall...

Unemployment in the U.S. is currently at its lowest rate in six years, which would ordinarily be an indicator of economic improvement. That's not...

What killed Red Lobster? Something did because, according to LZ Granderson at CNN, Darden reported a 37.6% drop in earnings per share?in the first quarter...