Unionization efforts at Starbucks and Amazon get front-page media coverage. But dozens of workplaces discard their unions every year, often with little fanfare.
However, the tariffs did shift supply chains away from China and towards other countries with low-cost manufacturing, like Vietnam, Malaysia, and India.
The national wage floor is so low that it might as well not exist.
AI will not create a jobless dystopia. Paying people a lot of money not to work would.
"For the first time since California came into the union," the publisher and businessman says, "they're having out-migration."
As demand for trips has plummeted in the wake of the wage hikes, the Drivers Union is trying to limit the number of gig workers on the road.
Many states have deregulated hair braiding, but Louisiana lawmakers want to tighten regulations by demanding more coursework, including on the ancient origins of braiding.
A proposal in Victoria would require every business, no matter the size, to allow two days of remote work a week.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that instead of adding jobs last month, the economy lost nearly 100,000.
American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90 percent of the 2025 tariffs' economic burden, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found.
Finally given a chance to influence trade policy, the vast majority of House Republicans decided it was more important to keep President Donald Trump happy.
Meanwhile, Trump is touting low gas prices, which are due in part to the lack of tariffs on oil and gasoline.
"Flexibility at work has the power to drive fertility decisions," according to researchers running a survey in the U.S. and 38 other countries.
It's also not the whole story. Federal spending isn't falling and the private sector job market is stagnant.
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The accuracy and reliability of BLS data on inflation and jobs will depend on what the Trump administration does with it.
You can’t legislate your way to prosperity.
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.
Lawmakers made an exception for smaller restaurant chains, implicitly acknowledging that the law would come with costs.
There are plenty of private alternatives to the employment report put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The policy would slow innovation, reduce competitiveness, and leave American workers unprepared for the future.
Industry insiders dominate the boards that control who can work, using government power to shut out competitors, protect profits, and block reform.
Trump's mass deportation policies are undermining his manufacturing agenda.
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Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.
The Republican and the socialist agree: Free trade and H-1B visas are bad news.
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Becoming a taxidermist or hair braider shouldn't involve costly hurdles.
If a Democratic president tried to so directly politicize an independent agency, Republicans would be screaming about the coming tyranny.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference.
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A new law creates an apprenticeship program allowing unlicensed Iowans to make an income from providing cosmetology and barbering services.
A new comprehensive review finds the negative effects of trade with China have been significantly exaggerated.
The issue has long polarized a city that is dominated by liberal and progressive politics and politicians, some of whom have confronted that good intentions do not equal good outcomes here.
Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the reactionary right?
Middlebury professor Gary Winslett argues the South—not China—poached the Rust Belt’s manufacturing base by out-competing it on policy.
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If anything, they sabotage the very forces—dynamism, adaptability, innovation—that create the economic opportunities struggling workers need.
Goldman Sachs estimates that the tariffs will create about 100,000 manufacturing jobs while destroying 500,000 others. In Pennsylvania, it's already starting.
If lots of Americans wanted factory jobs, the domestic labor market would look very different.
Daniel Hannan argues that protectionism never works, but that's a lesson that politicians and voters seemingly have to relearn repeatedly.
Our manufacturing output, even adjusted for inflation, is near all-time highs.
Studies have continuously shown that migrants create more jobs than they destroy.
Musk's fans and critics will keep debating whether DOGE is revolutionizing government or wrecking important institutions.
A popular narrative says Europeans are better off because of increased regulation. Reality paints a different picture.
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