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"Employees risk getting poked, and DO get poked" 

... the economy is indeed delivering, but not for as many people as the headlines would have you believe...

...desperate times call for desperate measures. And Rahm is out the door in May... so he won’t be around when the city has to default on its debt.

...including undocumented New Yorkers.

After a scorching summer and fall, the US labor market entered the winter with some unexpected softness across all key labor indicators.

The response indicates a bigger problem in India: the country has a fast growing economy, but isn’t generating enough jobs for its educated young population.

Many fast food chains are being forced to consider more "creative" hiring strategies...

"Actions have consequences.  Even for the Fed..."

...at 1pm on Friday, after 29 hours of work, this figure was reached.

Scandal-plagued Montebello Unified School District made a nearly $800,000 payout to its former superintendent in 2017, documents show, but the district won’t explain why.

Younger Americans are having an increasingly harder time to find jobs when they are, well, competing with their parents

The US labor market is officially overheating as US employers added a whopping 312K workers in December, the most in ten months, as hourly wages rose by 3.2%, the most in almost ten years... putting the Fed in a bit of a bind.

Any major upside outliers may be a classic case of "good news is bad news" because should the report indicate more labor market overheating (see today's ADP). market expectations of no more rate hikes may be dashed.

Germany remains particularly vulnerable to a large scale cash-handler strike during the holidays. 

We have home sales plunging, prices declining, and wage growth is decelerating, construction remains strong but has also begun to slow. While each cycle may differ ever so slightly, the outcome is almost always the same.

"Teacher pay is now 5% lower than it was in 2009"

 "It's just not right. The American people believe in the value of work - and that workers deserve to be valued..."