Jobs

Policy

Weekly Jobless Claims Drop to 331K

Fall of 20,000

Reason Staff | 2.6.2014 8:42 AM

Policy

Advocates Want Mentally Disabled Included in Minimum Wage Hike

The fact that they often can't contribute nearly as much labor is apparently not relevant

Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 5:45 PM

Economics

Dell Reportedly Planning Massive Layoffs

More than 15,000 employees to be let go

Reason Staff | 2.3.2014 3:45 PM

Inequality

"We imagine that punishing the rich will miraculously uplift the poor," Says Washington Post Columnist

Ronald Bailey | 2.3.2014 3:12 PM

Policy

Hedge Fund Manager Paul Singer Says Minimum Wage Increase Would 'Destroy Jobs'

Made the comment in letter to investors

Reason Staff | 1.28.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Obama Vows To Help Cities Improve Infrastructure and Create Jobs

During meeting with 250 mayors

Reason Staff | 1.24.2014 10:50 AM

Politics

Cameron: Europe Could Learn From the UK's Job Creation

The U.K. created 250,000 jobs in the three months to November

Reason Staff | 1.24.2014 9:40 AM

Politics

Reid: Senate Not Giving Up on Jobless Aid Extension

Tuesday's vote failed

Reason Staff | 1.15.2014 3:20 PM

Policy

Pack of Economists Call for Minimum Wage Increase

75 send letter to the president

Reason Staff | 1.14.2014 4:20 PM

Politics

Why President Obama Is Wrong on Inequality

It is not the "defining challenge of our time."

Ronald Bailey | 1.10.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Ronald Bailey Explains Why President Obama is Wrong on Income Inequality

Reason Staff | 1.10.2014 1:30 PM

Economics

Nobel-Winning Economist Dale Mortensen Dies at 74

Studied supply and demand in the job market

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 5:30 PM

Economics

Macy's to Cut 2,500 Jobs

Part of reorganization

Reason Staff | 1.8.2014 7:00 PM

Policy

Fraud Still a Problem with Unemployment Program

$7.7 billion in improper payments in 2013

Reason Staff | 1.8.2014 1:50 PM

Corporations

Want Jobs? Abolish Corporate Income Tax, Says New York Times Op-Ed

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2014 1:46 PM

Politics

Sen. Reid Says Unemployment Extension Vote to Come Monday

Another three months

Reason Staff | 12.31.2013 6:30 PM

Economics

Hewlett-Packard Lays Off More Employees

Another 5,000 shown the door

Reason Staff | 12.31.2013 5:50 PM

Economics

New Jobless Claims Rise

Unexpectedly!

Reason Staff | 12.19.2013 5:50 PM

Politics

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Prohibit Credit Checks of Job Applicants

This is the federal government's business why?

Reason Staff | 12.17.2013 7:00 PM

Politics

Spend Sunday Morning with Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe Talking College Debt, Work Ethic, and Blue Collar Jobs

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 12.15.2013 9:30 AM

Politics

Reason-Rupe Poll: 72 Percent Favor Raising the Minimum Wage but 57 Percent Would Oppose If It Costs Jobs

Americans like the idea of hiking the cost of labor, but only if it doesn't price workers out of jobs.

Emily Ekins | 12.13.2013 10:30 AM

Economics

Pay Gap Narrows Among Young Women

Millennials entering work force see less difference in pay between sexes

Reason Staff | 12.11.2013 6:40 PM

Economics

Work at Reason!

Reason Staff | 12.8.2013 10:00 AM

Economics

Stocks Jump Following Jobs Report

Market improved for first time in six days

Reason Staff | 12.6.2013 5:20 PM

Economics

Obama Flogs 'Income Gap' in Speech

Maybe stop taking people's money and giving it to overpaid government bureaucrats?

Reason Staff | 12.4.2013 3:00 PM

Politics

Sometimes the 'Makers' Act Like 'Takers'

Could American businesses learn from foreign ones a lesson in self-reliance?

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.4.2013 10:30 AM

Economics

H&M Seeks to Pay 'Living Wage' to Workers Worldwide

To 850,000 textile workers by 2018

Reason Staff | 11.25.2013 3:20 PM

Culture

Merrill Lynch Intern Died of Epileptic Seizure

Fatigue may have been a trigger

Reason Staff | 11.22.2013 6:20 PM

Politics

Census Bureau: No Sign of Systemic Manipulation of Jobs Data

Accused of fudging the unemployment numbers in 2012

Reason Staff | 11.20.2013 2:20 PM

Politics

House to Probe Accusations of Falsified Jobs Reports

Prior to the 2012 elections

Reason Staff | 11.19.2013 1:50 PM

Policy

E-Verify Turns Work Into a Privilege, and Empowers the Surveillance State

It's a bit of immigration "reform" that nobody needs.

Cathy Reisenwitz | 11.17.2013 12:00 PM

Policy

US Jobless Claims Fell to 339,000 Last Week

Fall of 2,000

Reason Staff | 11.14.2013 8:40 AM

Economics

EU Leaders Promise Jobs for Youths

Except they have no ideas, so good luck!

Reason Staff | 11.12.2013 6:20 PM

Politics

Most Americans Favor Raising the Minimum Wage, Unless it Costs Something

Emily Ekins | 11.12.2013 9:12 AM

Economics

Job Growth Accelerates in Month of Government Shutdown

"Despite" or "because"?

Reason Staff | 11.8.2013 4:20 PM

Politics

Bill Banning Job Discrimination Against Gays Passes Senate

Scott Shackford | 11.7.2013 6:30 PM

Politics

Senate Passes Bill to Outlaw Anti-Gay Job Discrimination

Will head to the House, where there is significant resistance

Reason Staff | 11.7.2013 2:30 PM

Economics

Chinese Premier: Country May Need Growth Rate of At Least 7.2 Percent For Enough Job Creation

jerbs!

Reason Staff | 11.5.2013 8:30 AM

Politics

Bill Preventing Anti-Gay Job Discrimination Passes Senate Hurdle

Prospects in the House not so good

Reason Staff | 11.4.2013 7:00 PM

Politics

Bill Banning Anti-Gay Job Discrimination Has Votes to Pass Senate

House passage is not likely

Reason Staff | 11.4.2013 5:30 PM

Economics

Kellogg to Cut 7 Percent of Workforce

Over the next four years

Reason Staff | 11.4.2013 3:50 PM

Politics

Senate Mulls Outlawing Anti-Gay Job Discrimination; What Will Come of Freedom of Association?

Most Americans now support such laws

Scott Shackford | 11.4.2013 11:50 AM

Politics

"Cash for Clunkers" Most Expensively Idiotic Way to "Create Jobs" You Could Likely Imagine

Brian Doherty | 10.31.2013 12:44 PM

Culture

Thomson Reuters to Cut 3,000 Jobs

Five percent of work force

Reason Staff | 10.29.2013 3:40 PM

Economics

Bank of America to Eliminate 3,000 Mortgage-Related Jobs

Following decline in loan portfolio

Reason Staff | 10.24.2013 5:50 PM

Policy

Jobless Claims Fall to 350,000

Decline less than expected

Reason Staff | 10.24.2013 8:50 AM

Policy

148,000 Jobs Created in September, Below Expectations

Unemployment rate down to 7.2 percent

Reason Staff | 10.22.2013 8:36 AM