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“Dirty Jobs'” Mike Rowe government’s attack on freelancers

As more and more Americans find ways to work for themselves, the government is doing everything in its power to make it nearly impossible. Under the Corporate Transparency Act, small business owners with fewer than 20 employees and less than $5 million in revenue are forced to register with FinCEN, and failure to do so […]

Tech big hailed as Britain’s Steve Jobs masterminded $11B ‘fraud’: prosecutors

Mike Lynch, the wealthy tech founder once hailed as Britain’s answer to Steve Jobs, has been involved in a “multi-year, multi-layered” “fraud,” prosecutors told a U.S. jury in California on Monday. The beginning of his criminal trial. In federal court in San Francisco, prosecutor Adam Reeves said Lynch “weaved a great story” about the company’s […]

Fresh data on inflation, jobs could force Fed to rethink rate cuts

The Fed’s path to lower interest rates this year is further complicated by new data showing that while the job market remains strong, inflation remains high. The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale inflation, rose 0.6% in February, twice the Dow Jones estimate of 0.3% and the 0.3% rise recorded in January, the Labor Department […]

Jobs programs for illegal aliens create more problems, not a solution

The anti-border movement appears to be rallying around a solution to the immigration crisis that has flooded the United States with millions of illegal aliens: a solution that would give them all jobs. Woke public servants across the country, from New York to Colorado, seem to have decided that the only problem with the endless […]

February’s Jobs Numbers Are an Economic Rorschach Test

What you take home depends on what you bring in. Employment statistics for February are as follows: economical rorschach test. What you see in the ink blot released by the Department of Labor depends largely on what you were already trying to see. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 275,000 in February, easily beating consensus expectations and […]

Takeaways from the February jobs report

February’s employment statistics showed that the labor market remained strong, with job growth exceeding expectations in a cold labor market. The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% in February, the highest level in more than two years, threatening to end the longest streak of unemployment below 4% since 1969. The downward revisions for December and January […]