Economy

Despite efforts by President Joe Biden’s administration to pack the United States workforce with more foreign labor, there remain about 16.4 million Americans who are jobless but want a full-time job and millions more who are underemployed. 

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh reacted to the jobs report by stating that issues of childcare and the fact that “many of our kids are still in school in a hybrid model” and some are still learning

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to spend $10B to create a Civil Climate Corps that she claims will create 1.5 million jobs.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on Congress Friday to terminate the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits after Joe Biden’s poor April job report.

Canadian conservative media website Rebel News has reportedly been blacklisted by PayPal, the web’s leading payment processor, another incident in a growing trend of financial blacklisting of conservatives.

Texas Senate Bill 12, a proposed law aimed at limiting the power of Big Tech companies to censor users in the Lone Star State, has won praise from Prof. Adam Candeub, who was former President Donald Trump’s point man on tech censorship.

The president dismissed media commentary pointing out the disparity between the estimated job creation numbers and the jobs actually created in April.

Enhanced jobless benefits are likely to depress employment without raising wages for workers.

Appearing Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he disagrees with embattled House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) opposition to former President Donald Trump, stating the Republican Party must unify with Trump in order to move forward.

President Joe Biden blamed former President Donald Trump on Friday for a devastating job numbers report in April.

Twitter has announced a new feature called “Tip Jar” this week that makes it easy for users to send money to their favorite “creators” on the Twitter platform. Only certain accounts will be able to utilize the Tip Jar feature to make money, including journalists, experts, and nonprofits selected by the Masters of the Universe.

The city council in Tucson, Arizona, voted Tuesday and unanimously approved up to $30 million in pay raises for city workers as well as a pay increase for its police department, according to Fox News.

According to an ongoing analysis of Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature, the vast majority of iPhone users are choosing to shut down app tracking cutting off many apps from accessing their personal data. According to user data, only 4 percent of iPhone users in America have enabled app tracking, which Facebook has begged the public to do to keep its platform “free of charge.”

President Joe Biden defended his decision to extend increased checks to unemployed workers, despite a crushing jobs report showing unemployment rose last month for the first time since April 2020.

Friday’s jobs report is a five-alarm disaster. Do not let the fake news media spin this failure any other way. The expected one million jobs collapsed to about one quarter of that with just 266,000 new jobs, which is such a dreadful number we would shrug at it during normal economic times.

The number of women working shrank in April, a surprising development in a rapidly growing economy.

The White House prepared to celebrate a jobs-gained milestone of 2 million on Friday under President Joe Biden during his first 100 days — but those plans were shattered by the devastating jobs report for April. Punchbowl News reported Friday

The privacy-focused messaging app Signal recently attempted to run an ad campaign on the Facebook-owned Instagram platform that highlighted the invasive data collection of big tech firms. According to Signal’s CEO, Facebook swiftly shut the campaign down.

Economists expected the economy to add 938,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to fall to 5.8 percent.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) reacted to Republicans claiming that increased unemployment benefits have disincentivized people from working by stating that employers should increase their wages. Host Chris Hayes asked, “A trend has started

President Joe Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas is using the little-known “parole” side door in border law to bring legally deported migrants back for televised reunions with their left-behind, asylum-seeking children.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who has been endorsed by Donald Trump in the Alabama Senate race, gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News about the threat of tech censorship, comparing Silicon Valley’s suppression of speech to Communist China’s and urging the breakup of Big Tech companies.

States who voted for President Joe Biden in the last election lost double the number of jobs than states who voted for former President Donald Trump, during the pandemic, according to a recent study.

China on Thursday announced the suspension of economic dialogue with Australia amid deteriorating relations over human rights issues, Chinese espionage and political interference, and Australia’s withdrawal from two projects tied to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

“Bernie Sanders wanted ‘Medicare for all,’ but that applied only to healthcare. Mr. Biden’s reach goes beyond even Bernie, proposing what will become Medicaid for everything.”

Tom Vilsack argued that Biden’s program restricted white farmers from applying for aid to address historic racism in the Department of Agriculture.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that two Royal Navy ships will continue their watch over the waters around the British Crown Dependency of Jersey after dozens of French fishermen ended their protests over alleged fishing rights violations.