Solutions exist to help those who have been out of the workforce for long periods. Why aren’t we trying them? BY NANCY COOK On Friday morning, another closely watched jobs report will tell us the number of new positions the economy

More than half ate free meals at work because their food budgets were too stretched at home. Oakland has become a restaurant boomtown, with more than 200 new restaurants debuting there in the past three years alone. But while the

“We’ve created more jobs, I think, for the job centers than through the job centers. Let me restate that, if that’s not clear. The people who work in our job centers in the past have actually been more jobs than

At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate – hovering below 6 percent –obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in the labor force that will only worsen in years to come. According to the most recent figures, 9.3

What justifies so much government spending per student at private elite universities? Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle-class, and low

Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States. The first, the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy’s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary Americans’ incomes

Now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs offshoring on the US economy and millions of American lives, globalism’s advocates have resurrected Dartmouth economist Matthew Slaughter’s discredited finding

The Obama administration on Tuesday issued regulations requiring companies that do business with the federal government to pay their workers at least $10.10 an hour. A final rule unveiled by the Labor Department comes at the direction of President Obama,

Recently an acquaintance at the next table in a Palo Alto (Calif.) restaurant introduced me to his companions, three young venture capitalists from China. They explained, with visible excitement, that they were touring promising companies in Silicon Valley. I’ve lived