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Congressional Republicans showed a 14 point advantage over Democrats on competency to handle inflation in a Morning Consult/Politico survey of registered voters released Wednesday.

Florida’s statewide unemployment rate continues to be lower than the national average as the state has added jobs 22 months in a row, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Friday.

MILAN (AP) – Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging ground to a halt as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent natural gas prices skyrocketing.

Executives at the United States Chamber of Commerce are urging President Joe Biden and Congress to double legal immigration levels so that the nation’s 11.3 million job openings can be filled by foreign workers rather than jobless Americans on the sidelines of the labor market. 

Economists had expected the economy to add around 440,000 jobs in February.

The George W. Bush Institute, the Chamber of Commerce, and the billionaire Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations are banding together with other mass migration groups to demand President Joe Biden expand overall immigration to the United States.

Rep. Josh Hawley said that instead of shutting down domestic production of oil and gas, President Biden should ramp up fossil fuel operations across the country.

A group of Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats to demand President Joe Biden import more H-2B foreign visa workers to take working-class, blue-collar American jobs.

A majority of Americans say the economy is the top issue in determining how they will vote in the midterm elections, a Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey released this week found.

A great jobs number for January disguised the fact that omicron sidelined a record 8.75 million workers in January.

President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that Americans are still suffering the effects of high inflation rates and high gas prices, but did not acknowledge his administration’s policies are partially responsible.

The American economy is showing signs of immunity to the pandemic but the threat of inflation looms as average hourly wages climb by more than expected.

Matching the second worst month ever recorded in small business ADP payroll data.

January looks like it was a disaster for jobs.

A vital demographic of the American electorate, swing state voters in the heartland who side with economic populists against corporate special interests, are being sought after by a number of Democrats running for the United States Senate.

Mass immigration to the United States is partly responsible for the nation’s “staggering inequality” among black Americans, the former head of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation says.

The total number of people employed in the U.S. still lags behind the prepandemic level. The workforce participation rate has not recovered either.

Biden’s first year in office ends with another very disappointing jobs report.

Omicron is likely exacerbating the labor shortage.

ADP has not had a great track record through the pandemic.

A record number of Americans quit their jobs in November even as job openings declined from recent record high.

Billy Bova, a Democrat supporter of former President Donald Trump, said greed and cheap labor are the reasons American corporations continue to operate in communist China despite the country’s threat to the United States and its continued human rights abuses, including slave labor.

Actress Susan Sarandon is calling for Americans to boycott Kellogg’s in solidarity with striking union workers across the United States whom the woke company executives have vowed to replace.

House and Senate Democrats who have claimed to be champions for labor unions are silent as the Kellogg Company, whose largest shareholder is the left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is set to replace about 1,400 American union workers who have been on strike since October. 

Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on Friday reacted to the month of November’s jobs report showing the economy added only 210,00 jobs, and the unemployment rate sank to 4.2%.

Payrolls grew by far less than expected in November.

High and rising inflation is convincing more people that business conditions are poor and the labor market will weaken in the months ahead.

Florida has experienced 18 consecutive months of private-sector job growth, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Friday.

The Igloo Products Corporation, known for producing ice chests, coolers, and other products, imported foreign visa workers to take United States manufacturing jobs over hiring qualified Americans, a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation finds.

Buried inside the “infrastructure” bill is mention of China ‘s role in the supply chain needed to grow a fleet of electric vehicles in the U.S.

Despite the better than expected jobs numbers, the number of black women working fell in October.

People are getting back to work.

The decline in cases in Florida and other southern states may be fueling growth in payrolls in restaurants, bars, hotels, and resorts.

Neal Crabtree, a welder who lost his job on the Keystone XL pipeline, said his crisis is not about the climate but about earning a living.

Speaking at an event in Virginia, President Biden falsely claimed that there are more people working now than just before the pandemic struck.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) is urging Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to oppose a “corporate carve-out for unlimited foreign labor” that Democrats have slipped into a filibuster-proof budget reconciliation package.