unemployment rate

Caleb Tolin | June 12, 2018
In an interview with CNN this week, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed that "real wages," which are adjusted for inflation, aren’t rising. “Do you…
Patrick Hauf | June 5, 2018
The economy is booming. According to the Labor Department, this spring, the number of jobs available in the U.S. outnumbered the total number of …
Nick Kangadis | February 1, 2018
People on the Right are flying high after President Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday night. One of the biggest issues heading into…
ola olugbemi | October 19, 2017
Want to hear some good news? In the second week of October, initial jobless claims in the U.S. dropped from 244,000 to 222,000, marking the lowest…
Brittany M. Hughes | April 22, 2016
On April 22, the day nationally recognized as “Earth Day,” President Obama took a moment to tout his presidential accomplishments in combating…
Kathleen Burch | July 9, 2012
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), chair of the Democratic National Committee, says she's 'pretty happy about 28 straight months of job growth in…
Alicia Powe | July 6, 2012
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued the June employment report indicating that the figure stayed at the same rate from the…
danjoseph | November 15, 2011
Interestingly enough, if these folks really don't want to work on Thanksgiving eve, I'm sure that they could find someone who would be more than…