A duo of Senate Republicans called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Friday to bring a House-passed JOBS Act to the floor of the upper chamber rather than introducing his own jobs bill. Following the House’s 390-23 vote, the JOBS Act was poised to sail through the Senate given…

While millions of Americans remain unemployed, we’re hearing about another bad idea that hurts people looking for work. It is misplaced compassion to promise to raise the minimum wage, or to increase it automatically whenever the cost of living goes up. The problem is that when the minimum wage goes…

Just when you thought Mitt Romney had the nomination in the bag, Newt Gingrich’s surprising win in Saturday’s South Carolina primary showed a nice change of pace. The former Speaker took the state with 41 percent of the vote, while Romney claimed second with 27 percent. It was a shocking…

MANCHESTER,N.H.— The Occupy movement was alive and well in Manchester on January 10, the quintessential epicenter of political discourse, with one rallying cry, “keep the money out of our politics”. Occupy Wall Street, a grass-roots campaign born out of a general discontent with the state of the American political and…

The unemployment rate dropped by a slight .1 percent in December, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department, with the economy adding 200,000 jobs.