labour economics

HARRISBURG — A budget hearing on Tuesday in the state Capitol highlighted an ongoing labor wage rate concern that has some worried about Pennsylvania’...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Many Americans have never experienced a “good economy,” if a good economy is defined as one in which an individual can graduate fr...

HARRISBURG — Twenty-one states across the US are raising the minimum wage in 2025. Pennsylvania Democrats would like to see the commonwealth soon join...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Labor and employment at theUniversity of Pittsburghlooks completely different than it did a year ago. This semester, strong majorit...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President-elect Donald Trump’s economic legacy may well depend on whether he prefers the comparative form of an adjective. Specifical...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The degrowth movement, which had a moment a few years ago, is over — and not a moment too soon. As nations in Europe and North Americ...

Finding a job is getting a lot harder, and it’s likely to get harder still, but there’s an obvious remedy. The U.S. Federal Reserve needs to cut inter...

Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should. In July, a National Bureau of Economic ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — New survey results reveal that Americans’ satisfaction with their customer experiences today has fallen to the lowest level in at l...

HARRISBURG — Misclassification that’s shorting workers and the state’s safety net has some legislators looking askance at gig work. Legislators of bot...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has some good economic news: its general fund revenues are higher than expected — and next year’s are expected to grow by an...