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Labor market ‘weaker than expected’, US employers add fewer jobs than...
The Bureau overstated the hiring for the year ending in March by an estimated 911,000 jobs, but economists at Goldman Sachs believe the revision would be between 550,000 and 950,00 jobs.
As job gains slow, the Fed and Congress apply the wrong...
This is hardly the time to put on the fiscal brakes.
Trump’s job boast
“The entire announcement appears to be a restatement of commitments that were first made informally as early as 2015, and made more formally in early 2016, at least six months before the election.”
May Jobs Report: Ouch!
The report reinforces what already should have been clear. Voters will remain in a surly mood.
Jobs Report: Unfinished Business As Unemployment Falls Below 5 Percent
The biggest mistake policymakers in Washington could make right now is to assume that what we're seeing right now resembles actual "full employment."
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Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has...
The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.