Fast-food burrito chain Chipotle will raise menu prices to cover the rising cost of labor to attract Americans back to work after the Democrats continued with the extra-generous jobless benefits, the company announced Tuesday.
U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in April, far surpassing expectations, and March’s record number of openings was revised higher.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said that the Biden administration inherited high unemployment rates for blacks and women.
An amnesty plan touted by a group of House Republicans and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would expand the number of foreign visa workers taking United States jobs in the lower end of the labor market.
U.S. businesses posted wanted ads for 6.9 million jobs in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. That was an increase from the upwardly revised 6.752 million for December and well-above the 6.585 forecast by economists surveyed by Econoday.
Nearly 17 million Americans remain unemployed in the United States economy, though all want full-time jobs, as President Joe Biden’s administration looks to pack the labor market with foreign workers.
President Joe Biden has restarted allowing companies to fill scarce U.S. jobs with foreign workers after a major lobbying effort by big business interests, even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.
Big tech’s lobbying arm and the Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations are cheering on President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan that would pack the United States labor market with more foreign visa workers for business to hire over American graduates and professionals.
Senate Republicans are lining up to oppose President Joe Biden’s massive amnesty plan that would legalize between 11 to 22 million illegal aliens and increase legal immigration levels all while more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.
President Joe Biden’s administration is suggesting that foreign workers have a right to compete for jobs in the United States labor market against jobless Americans.
Economists had expected jobless claims to inch up to 710,000.
Iniitlal claims for jobless benefits came in lower than expected.
President Donald Trump is vowing to expand his pro-American worker agenda through more immigration restriction as Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden offers a vision for a flooded labor market with increased foreign competition.
A majority of undecided voters say they see immigration as a labor issue, supporting reductions to legal immigration in order to protect the United States labor market from cheap, foreign competition, a survey finds.
A sign that the labor market may have strengthened at the end of July.
There is no shortage of U.S. technology graduates, says a detailed study in Bloomberg.com, which normally echoes Fortune 500 employers in demanding more imported H-1B visa-workers.
While 47 Republican lawmakers ask President Trump to bring more foreign workers to the United States, there remains no labor shortage with 30 million Americans unemployed, all of whom want full-time jobs.
The share of Americans expecting more jobs six months from now rose from 16.9 percent to 41.0 percent.
The coronavirus has roiled financial markets but the labor market remains very strong.
The labor market remains very strong with very low levels of layoffs and unemployment.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 202,000 last week.
President Donald Trump’s “Public Charge” reform to exclude legal but unskilled and unhealthy migrants is being denounced by progressives and business groups as a damaging change in federal economic policy — amid evidence it will nudge wages upward for most Americans.
Confidence is high enough to prevent the economy from slowing down in the first half of 2020, the Conference Board said.
It’s a virtuous circle for the economy: consumer spending supports labor market strength which supports consumer spending.
The U.S. private sector added 202,000 positions in December, according to an estimate from ADP and Moody’s Analytics.
The bottom 25 percent of American wage earners secured the largest wage hikes year-to-year compared to all others for November, newly released data reveals, thanks to President Trump’s tightening of the United States labor market.
Another sign that the economy is finding a firmer footing as we move away from the summer of 2019’s imaginary recession.
The imaginary recession of 2019 is over.
Jobless claims fall back down toward record lows.
The U.S. labor market displays surprising strength going into the holiday season.
