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Additional employment means more spending power. In an economy still suffering from supply constraints, that’s a recipe for higher prices.

The unexpectedly strong January jobs report, in the middle of the omicron surge in the coronavirus pandemic, makes it clear that President Joe Biden’s signature spending plan, “Build Back Better,” is unnecessary and arguably inflationary.

President Joe Biden is allowing businesses to import an additional 20,000 foreign workers on the H-2B visas program to take blue-collar jobs in the United States even as 12 million Americans remain jobless and millions more are underemployed.

A group of Republican and Democrat governors is begging President Joe Biden to import more foreign visa workers to take American jobs even as hundreds of thousands of Americans in their states remain jobless. 

Inflation has nullified increases to wages in Britain last year, with workers experiencing a decline in pay in real terms in November.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity? The racial gap in unemployment got much worse in December.

Omicron is likely exacerbating the labor shortage.

Some hospitals, healthcare providers, and nursing homes would stand to lose up to a third of their workers due to Biden’s vaccine mandate.

One of the kinks in the ongoing supply chain crisis is a shortage of truck drivers and some say that importing foreign workers could help.

According to the report, 4.4 million Americans — three percent — chose to voluntarily leave their place of employment.

Republican governors and legislatures are leading Americans back to work, according to analysis of the state-by-state unemployment data from the Department of Labor.

Joe Biden has two bad ideas now: boosting inflation and hurting job-creation. And he wants to add a third bad idea: increased welfare dependency.

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday vaccine mandates hurting economic employment, which has resulted in exasperating President Biden’s supply chain crisis. 

The Jobs Creators Network reacted to President Joe Biden’s terrible jobs report, blaming his “failed policies” and radical agenda for “wrecking small businesses” across the country.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded to President Joe Biden’s disappointing September jobs report, blaming the “misguided policies” put up by the congressional Democrats that hurt the U.S. economy.

The president continued to spin the numbers as an improvement, despite a second consecutive month of employment numbers far below expectations of at least 500,000 jobs created. 

The September numbers are even worse than the disastrous report from August, showing only 235,000 jobs created.

Six million people in Spain are in severe poverty, a figure that has increased by 50 per cent since 2018 as the pandemic fuels even more economic problems for Spaniards.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dipped to 326,000 in the week ended October 2, a decline of 38,000 from the previous week.

A 65-year-old Virginia Vietnam veteran has been unable to find work since losing his job as a go-kart mechanic at the start of the pandemic.

United Airlines is planning to fire nearly 600 employees who have refused to get vaccinated against Chinese coronavirus.

Fed officials now expect inflation to run at 4.2 percent this year, up from 3.4 percent at the June meeting.

The end of enhanced and extended unemployment benefits saw a bigger than expected decline in applications for benefits.

President Joe Biden is failing on nearly every single major issue for Americans as support for his presidency continues to drop.

An Oregon McDonald’s decided to turn to young teenagers to fill jobs after having difficulty finding employees, the Washington Examiner reported on Thursday.

A “record share” of U.S. small businesses had unfilled positions in August, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Stephanie Ruhle Reports,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh reacted to the August jobs report underperforming forecasts by stating that forecasters have been wrong for several months, and that while there is work to be done and

The median forecast of analysts was for 740,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 5.2 percent.

Economists had forecast 345,000 new claims.

The Chairman of the German Board of the Federal Employment Agency has claimed that Germany needs at least 400,000 migrants to arrive per year to fill gaps in the labour market.

The better than expected jobs growth in July was driven by a rise in jobs held by whites. Black employment and black labor force participation declined.

Big business interests are ramping up their lobbying for more legal immigration to the United States as nearly 16 million Americans remain jobless and millions more are underemployed. 

Voters in battleground districts believe that the generous unemployment benefits are the reason there is a hindering economic recovery and labor market, according to a recent poll authorized by the American Action Network to show to the House Republican leadership this week.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) would not answer questions Thursday about one of her appointees involved in another scandal.

New claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Economists had expected a further decline.

The better than expected June jobs report indicates the policies of Republican-led states are helping speed the recovery.