Tag: layoffs

Nearly 15,000 jobs will soon be lost in North America, with our country taking the biggest hit.

John Boehner is here, in his district today, to unveil the Republican jobs plan: U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., will talk at ThyssenKrupp Bilstein of America Inc. on Monday about the U.S. House Republicans’ jobs plan. This is the second time a major Republican politician has promoted their jobs plans at ThyssenKrupp, […]

Let’s hope this keeps up: The news is all good for the jobs market so far in 2012: Separate reports Thursday showed a surge in private-sector job creation, a sharp drop in weekly unemployment claims and planned layoffs at their lowest level in six months. Though the December data flowing in is sensitive to seasonal […]

That according to Joe Scarborough: From The Huffington Post: “I hear it on the Hill, I’m sure you hear it on the Hill all the time, it’s not reported, but so many Republicans tell me this is a guy that is not the hardest worker in the world,” said Scarborough on Wednesday’s edition of Morning […]

Some good news on the jobs front: New applications for U.S. jobless benefits plunged to the lowest level in 14 weeks, a possible sign that the massive wave of layoffs has peaked. Still, the number of unemployed Americans getting benefits climbed to a new record. The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number newly laid […]

John Ensign just said on Meet the Press that the states aren’t hurting and there won’t be any teacher or firefighter layoffs. That statement right there should qualify right up there with “the foundation of our economy is strong”. The Republicans are clueless to what is happening in the economy and instead want ways to […]

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been at the front of the battle when it comes to CEOs receiving their golden parachutes, while their companies lay off and ask for government handouts, and he isn’t backing down at all: Calling the layoffs of 53,000 people “disturbing,” Cuomo says top executives shouldn’t get bonuses while investors, […]

Tech burst 2.0 for Yahoo: Battered by slow revenue growth and the popularity of social networking Web sites, Yahoo Inc. is poised to lay off hundreds of workers, according to published reports. more stories like this The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both reported on the slumping Internet icon’s cost-cutting plans, […]