News
National Journal | Sequester Slashes Help for Long-Term Unemployed
Out-of-work people are about to get another kick in the teeth this month, as the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester begin to slash federal emergency unemployment checks by as much as 10.7 percent.
CNN Money | Wages stink at America's most common jobs
Workers in seven of the 10 largest occupations typically earn less than $30,000 a year, according to new data published Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's a far cry from the nation's average annual pay of $45,790.
Market Watch | The march in jobs continues, but how long?
A pile of evidence suggests the U.S. economy hit the accelerator in early 2013, but the improvement will go for naught if job creation suffers another letdown.
Washington Times | New York minimum wage hike to $9 could be paid by taxpayers
New York's legislature approved a budget that hikes the state’s minimum wage to $9 per hour. But taxpayers, not businesses, could actually be the responsible party for paying those extra wage costs, if a closed-door tax credit agreement among politicos made the final budget cut.
Blogs
Economist | America's jobless manufacturing renaissance
American manufacturing receives a lot of verbal abuse, but it has actually held up very well over the past few decades. Some sub-industries, like textile manufacturing, have been gutted.
