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A survey by the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research reports that “less than half of Los Angeles County residents — 45% compared with 61% in mid-March — still hold a job” thanks to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Agriculture Department and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows are reportedly eyeing a plan to depress farmworker wages for the agricultural lobby in the midst of mass unemployment spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

Farm and feed retailer Tractor Supply Company announced Monday it will add 5,000 new jobs during the current coronavirus outbreak, calling the hiring drive its “most ambitious” ever.

The coronavirus has ended the longest job creation streak on record.

Factory production and employment fell in March as the coronavirus shutdown major parts of the economy.

The ADP report showed overall private payrolls falling by just 27,000, far fewer than the 125,000 decline forecast.

Amazon will invest over $350 million to add 100,000 new jobs and to increase pay by $2 per hour in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus has roiled financial markets but the labor market remains very strong.

The Swedish Employment Service has warned that migrant unemployment rates are set to dramatically increase to the worst levels since the 1990s in a new report.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seemingly blamed President Trump for the roughly 500,000 Americans who are living homeless today.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed during the CBS Democrat debate on Tuesday evening that President Trump’s economy is “not so good” for working class Americans.

Progressive Insurance announced plans on Tuesday to hire more than 8,000 people across the country this year.

While the enormous increase in government spending would create jobs, many more would likely be eliminated by the Green New Deal.

For the second month in a row, the survey of manufacturing businesses in New York came in better than expected.

The labor market remains very strong with very low levels of layoffs and unemployment.

Job openings fell but the ratio of unemployed to openings remains at historically low levels, indicating labor market strength.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, claimed that President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economy is not helping lift the poorest of Americans out of poverty.

Pete Buttigieg of South Bend falsely claimed during the Democrat Debate that President Trump “turns his back” on middle-class communities.

There remain about 11.4 million Americans who are out of work, sitting on the labor market sidelines but wanting full-time jobs.

New data from the Labor Department show that manufacturing was weaker at the end of the Obama era and stronger in Trump era.

During a Friday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House assistant for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro reacted to the U.S. economy adding 225,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate ticking up to 3.6%.

The U.S. economy added 225,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.6.

During a town hall event in Derry, New Hampshire, a swing voter asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) why he now supports unchecked immigration rather than holding true to his former position that such a policy is an effort to suppress Americans’ wages by the donor class.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 202,000 last week.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who supported convicting President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, profited thousands of dollars every time an American worker was laid off from their job after investments by his firm Bain Capital.

Businesses in the United States added 291,000 workers to private payrolls, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics

Record low unemployment for blacks, Hispanics, women, veterans, and the disabled.

Confidence is high enough to prevent the economy from slowing down in the first half of 2020, the Conference Board said.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the United States was “formed” by immigrants, not citizens, and thus Americans must not think of the immigration issue “narrowly.” 

It’s a virtuous circle for the economy: consumer spending supports labor market strength which supports consumer spending.

Left-wing populist Michael Tracey says it is a “major political liability” for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to be “percieved” of as endorsing an open borders agenda in the 2020 election.

The foreign-born share of the U.S. workforce is slightly declining as President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy pulls millions of sidelined Americans into the job market. 

Another bullish sign for the economy: manufacturing appears to be regaining its footing and expanding once more.

The economy is starting 2020 on a strong note.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admits cheaper illegal alien workers drive down wages for America’s working and middle class, but continues to support amnesty for illegal aliens, decriminalization of the United States-Mexico border, and throwing out President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order.

Known as the “dirtiest man on television,” Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch fame joined Breitbart News Sunday this weekend on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to discuss his new show Returning the Favor and combating stigmas around blue collar work.