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Jobs report: April employment for native-born and foreign-born workers

The jobs report for April released Friday showed that employment grew for native-born and fell slightly for foreign-born workers.  The breakdown of jobs by migration status has gained interest in recent months for several reasons. One is that Republicans have argued that President Joe Biden’s policies have favored immigrants. Another is that the large number […]

Updated Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion 

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated federal workplace guidelines for the first time in a quarter century to protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion. The new guidelines are released Federal agencies on Monday strengthened rights for transgender employees, including being protected from misgendering and using the restroom that matches their gender identity. Employees […]

Full-time fumble: ‘Bidenomics’ masks the true employment picture

Joe Biden boasted in his State of the Union address in March that his administration had created 15 million new jobs since January 2021, but that’s not exactly the case. A closer look at the calculations reveals that not only is this figure highly misleading, but that the majority of new jobs consist of part-time […]

NBC Should Reconsider Ronna McDaniel’s Employment

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said Monday on “Morning Joe” that he hopes NBC reconsiders its decision to hire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. “Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel appeared on Sunday’s ‘Meet the Press’ for the first time since NBC News hired her as a political analyst,” said co-host Joe Scarborough. It was […]

Why employment is only half the battle for America’s veterans 

Although the unemployment rate for veterans is lower than that for non-veterans, only half of them still have jobs. After years spent training for combat and deploying to combat zones, most ex-military personnel still struggle to find fulfillment in civilian work environments. “When you join the military, you have a very specific reason. And when […]

Return-to-office mandates will be worse for federal employment than leaders realize

Public sector unions have been warning for months that the federal government’s mandatory return-to-work requirement would have a negative impact on federal employee retention and recruitment. As a hint of what’s to come, we now have an early assessment of what happened at many companies that were pioneers in requiring employees to return to in-person […]

CBS News allegedly seized Catherine Herridge’s files, records after suddenly terminating her employment: Report

CBS News is facing charges that it seized computers, files and records belonging to reporter Katherine Herridge, “including information about privileged sources.” CBS News terminated Herridge’s employment last week as part of layoffs affecting fewer than 20 CBS News employees. Ms. Herridge is an award-winning and respected journalist with a distinguished career, so her sudden […]