Job Market

Looking for a New Job? These Are the Best Cities for You

By Beth Braverman

If you’re on the hunt for a good job, think warm thoughts and pack sunglasses.
Hoping for a Big Raise Next Year? Here’s How Much You’ll Probably Get

By Beth Braverman

A new report sheds light on how big a raise most workers will be getting next year.
A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over

By Jacqueline Leo

A new report by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has good news: "With [yesterday's] employment report, we can report that the national jobs gap relative to November 2007 has closed (...
3 New Benefits That Could Be Coming to Your Company

By Beth Braverman

As America flirts with full employment, companies have to work a bit harder to attract workers. A new survey shows that companies are becoming more generous with their benefits packages.
Are You Being Paid Fairly? Here's How to Find Out

By Beth Braverman

After nearly a decade of stagnation, wages are starting to rise as a strong job market (finally) gives American workers more power in negotiations.

The 10 College Majors Employers Want Most This Year

By Janna Herron

The proportion of employers planning to hire recent college graduates hit a decade-high this year. Here are the 10 majors most in demand.
What Will It Take to Finally Get US Workers’ Pay Growing Again?

By Anthony Mirhaydari

Workers of all political stripes must be frustrated by the fact that the economic expansion has yet to deliver the kind of wage gains that have been long promised.
Trump Inherits a Solid Job Market. Can He Really Make It Better?

By Rob Garver

For Trump, who declared that he would be “the greatest jobs president God ever created” during his campaign and has specifically and repeatedly said that employment growth will be his singular focus...
Here’s How Long It Takes for Your College Degree to Pay Off

By Beth Braverman

While there has been much hand-wringing among policymakers about the rising cost of college and growing levels of student debt, most analysts agree that those who earn a college degree are better off...
Why 2017 Should Be a Very Good Year for Finding a New Job

By Janna Herron

The U.S. economy last year added more than 2 million jobs, and 2017 should be an even better year for job seekers. Wages are poised to move higher, too. Employers expanded their payrolls by 156,000...

Economy May Not Be Slam Dunk for Romney

By Edward Morrissey

Conventional wisdom, as well as a slew of polls, has the U.S. election in November riding mainly on the economy. Mitt Romney’s campaign certainly believes that to be true. Romney and his surrogates...
The Poor: Not As Bad Off As They Once Were?

By Yuval Rosenberg

A new paper released this week – in which the authors admit they set out to refute much-publicized claims about inequality rocketing higher in recent decades — argues that income is not the best...
Deals Close on Transportation, Student Loan Rates

By Reuters

U.S. congressional negotiators neared a pair of election-year deals on Tuesday, one for a massive job-creating transportation bill, the other to prevent a doubling of student-loan interest rates,...
Why Good People Can't Find Jobs

By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

Peter Cappelli, author of a new book about today's job market, debunks the oft-repeated employer argument that applicants don't have the skills needed for today's jobs. Instead – labor laws...
Conservative Voters Rail at Obama...and the GOP

By Edmund Andrews, The Fiscal Times

Two years ago, Zawistowski was a political outsider. Today, he is president of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, a statewide tea-party group, and warns that Obama would carry out a massive government...

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