WASHINGTON — Tolling grimly higher, the recession snatched more than 650,000 Americans' jobs for a record third straight month in February as un...
Steve Rosenthal | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Hilda Solis will work tirelessly to help strengthen one of America's greatest assets, its labor force, and her nomination deserves to move forward and be confirmed quickly. America needs to get to work.
ZP Heller | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
The Senate Labor committee postponed Solis' nomination yesterday because of a recent USA Today report about her husband's outstanding California tax liens.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The country's largest labor and Hispanic groups are ratcheting up the confirmation fight over Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis, preparing a full-ou...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Although the recession is hitting men's employment more directly, overall women's employment rates in the 2000s have fallen more, and progress toward gender equality has stalled.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a centur...
New York Times | Robert Pear | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the gov...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The nation's jobless ranks zoomed past 10 million last month, the most in a quarter-century, as piles of pink slips shut factory ga...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — After months rife with uncertainty and unprecedented events that have roiled and reshaped Wall Street, at least one major unknown s...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years with pink slips likely to keep stacking higher in the months ahead, ...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — In the end, congressional approval of the government's $700 billion financial rescue plan Friday did little to lift the financial mar...
Rep. George Miller | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Our nation's workers, battered by unfair global competition, stagnant wages, declining benefits, and poor employer compliance with labor laws, deserve a Department of Labor that lives up to its name.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street rebounded smartly Friday, shooting higher as a surge in the dollar and another plunge in oil prices eased some of investo...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.07.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street tumbled Thursday as further troubles in the financial sector, higher unemployment and lackluster retail sales touched off...
Reuters | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Planned layoffs at U.S. companies jumped 26 percent in July from June, depicting further deterioration in the labor market, a rep...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices...
Rep. George Miller | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
This secret regulation is a clear attempt by the Bush administration and the business community to fundamentally weaken the scientific process for enacting new regulations that protect American workers.
Forbes | JOSHUA ZUMBRUN and BRIAN WINGFIELD | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business
If you're being affected by the downturn in housing or financial services, hang in there. At some point, those industries will rebound. Others should ...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years, fresh ...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, pro...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Michigan again recorded the highest unemployment rate in January, followed by Alaska, with most states recording little change in the measure, the Lab...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business