unemployment and layoffs

Considered by many the oldest Irish pub in America, Patrick's of Pratt Street in West Baltimore will close for good by September.

Despite protest from the head of the Baltimore Teachers Union, the city school system will move forward with issuing pink slips to central office and

Union leaders say layoffs violate contract, call for show of strength by members

The acting CEO of the city schools alerted city school employees in a letter Tuesday that school-based layoffs would be coming on May 31.

As people working every day to help students from our under-resourced communities, we commend Catherine Pugh for pledging to continue, as mayor, the Third Grade Reads tutoring initiative. It is an important program that seeks to provide educational opportunity to hundreds and eventually thousands of Baltimore students by leveraging the power of community collaboration.

The University of Baltimore laid off 14 employees and eliminated 12 vacant positions late last week amid a decline in enrollment, officials said Monday.

The Baltimore County Council plans to cut less than $200,000 from the county's proposed general fund budget of nearly $2 billion

My family and I are looking forward to the new leadership of Sonja Santelises. We hope that as the mother of three Baltimore public charter students, she will prioritize equitable funding for all city school children. We cannot afford another leader who fails to recognize the value that charter schools bring to the city.

Social Security is now ahead of joblessness as the top economic concern of the voting public. While this revelation should have triggered some political response to the economic pressures facing the program, politicians seem content with the peace in our time approach that has governed the program for decades and created trillions of dollars of promises for which the system does not expect to generate cash.

The Baltimore city school board unanimously passed a $1.2 billion budget Tuesday night that includes a bump in per-pupil funding from money promised by the state and city, school officials said.

The Baltimore city school board is poised to vote on a $1.2 billion budget next year that will require another round of central office staff cuts, including school police officers, but boost funding for literacy and math initiatives.

The $15 minimum wage is a bold step that could easily backfire on Baltimore

American society clearly still has gender biases, many of them harmful. Without minimizing the discrimination women face, we must acknowledge the effects on men — especially when they have it so much worse, according to so many indicators.

Nearly 6 percent of children in Maryland have a parent in prison or jail, which makes it more likely that they will struggle academically, live in poverty, and have other social or psychological problems that could plague them for life.

As someone who has grown up in Carroll County and whose family has lived here since 1948 I've seen numerous changes to the county both positive and negative over the years. As an active member of the community, I think people have various perceptions of the word "growth" regarding a community. Some hear growth and envision countless stoplights and traffic while others envision growth as adding to the community by increasing family activities, quality businesses and the overall health of the

The Irish economy has experienced a dramatic reversal under the leadership of Prime Minister Enda Kenny, writes Cal Thomas.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings: I remain convinced that, working together, we can assure that history remembers April 2015 as a time of rebirth for Baltimore and our nation; the moment when we began to truly see all of our people and include them in America's promise of opportunity for all.

The Maryland Economic Development Corp. and two local financial advisory firms raising a $50 million fund for real estate projects in parts of the city and state with high poverty and unemployment.

City housing officials should find a way to work with the youthful activists who are rehabbing a vacant house in Sandtown-Winchester

Pitts: Mississippi, the fattest, poorest, sickest state in the Union chooses to rail against LGBT people.

After marathon-long sessions the past two weeks hearing from each of the allied agencies on their needed funding levels, the Carroll County Board of Commissioners will finally get to work Tuesday with deliberations of their own on the budget for fiscal year 2017. No doubt, the process will be a contentious one. Whatever the decisions and discussions leading up to them, they need to happen in the open.

Carroll County's economy is poised to have a good year thanks to things like new companies moving into the county and a low unemployment rate, according to a prominent economist in the region.

A $69 million commitment by local businesses and institutions to boost opportunities for the city's poorest residents won't solve all the city's problems but it's a step in the right direction

Senate and House negotiators agreed Monday on the final details of the $42 billion state budget that includes extra aid for Baltimore's schools and no new taxes.

Maryland employers cut 1,800 jobs in February and experienced less job growth in January than previously estimated, according to new estimates released Friday by the Labor Department.

Some Republicans are very fond of lecturing the country on the importance of personal responsibility. Serving a long jail sentence for a minor drug offense? It's your fault for getting involved with drugs in the first place. Requesting unemployment benefits beyond the 72 weeks now allowed by law? You must be lazy and aren't serious about getting a job. A single mother of four struggling to live on welfare? Well, you should have thought about this before having those babies.

Last July, after 45 years as a news reporter, I joined Volunteers in Service to America — "the Domestic Peace Corps." Since then, I have been repeatedly asked, "How do you like your job?" It's a difficult question.

It was fascinating to watch members of Congress question EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy during a congressional hearing about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Republican members of Congress said that they were shocked that the EPA was unable to force the state of Michigan to respond appropriately to lead in Flint's water supply while children were poisoned for over a year.

The top Democrats running for mayor in Baltimore sparred Tuesday over who bears responsibility for the failed policies of the past, putting the front-runners, former Mayor Sheila Dixon and state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh, on the defensive.

Mayoral hopeful and Democratic state Sen. Catherine Pugh says fostering small business growth is a cornerstone of her economic development plan that is designed to bring jobs, healthy food choices and amenities to underserved communities.

Maryland employers added 1,900 jobs in January, pushing the state unemployment rate down to 4.9 percent, the Labor Department said Monday.

The Carroll County Board of Education discussed a number of issues related to the future of the school system during a meeting that lasted more than four hours Wednesday night.

In his "State of the State" address Wednesday, Gov. Larry Hogan said he has improved Maryland's financial picture. Here's how what the governor said stacks up against the facts.

It is election season again and the talking heads on the boob tube are concentrating on the presidential election. But we here in Carroll County have little to say in that struggle. Blame the folks that wrote the Constitution.

Maryland employers added 10,500 jobs in December, pushing the unemployment rate back down to 5.2 percent, according to estimates the Labor Department released on Tuesday.

The jobs of dozens of low-level state workers at the Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville are on the chopping block as part of Gov. Larry Hogan's $42 billion state budget.

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan unveiled the broad strokes of his $42 billion spending plan to legislative leaders Wednesday, promising an array of small tax cuts and putting a large amount of money into savings, according to people briefed on the plan.

Oakland Mills senior guard Theda Jackson hits the go-ahead basket with 12.4 seconds remaining to give the Scorpions their second county win of the year after beating Marriotts Ridge, 52-51 Wednesday.

If Baltimore wants to reduce crime, there must be a cutback in government programs that coddle the unemployed

Green energy has the potential to transform whole industries and create a new base of manufacturing and blue-collar jobs. What that means locally is that green technology can help retrain and reemploy Baltimoreans with well-paying jobs. These jobs are in demand and represent where the economy is heading — not where it's been.

As the Department of Labor on Friday reported another strong month of job gains, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said that the Maryland economy is also rebounding, joining the national economic expansion that prompted the bank to raise interest rates last month.

Two firms announced layoffs at Baltimore region offices on Monday, with total cuts impacting of more than 250 workers.

American workers expected to get pay raises in 2016, but in Maryland the future isn't clear

While those in the financial industry say that the interest rate increase the Federal Reserve announced last week – a quarter of a percentage point – might not matter much, next year and the year after could be a different story.

Maryland added 3,600 jobs in November, but the unemployment rate increased to 5.2 percent, according to government figures released Friday.

Recent jobs report suggests economy needs more help, particularly unemployed minorities

As Firaxis Games prepares to launch XCOM 2 and an unannounced project, it is keeping its growth measured given upheaval in the video game industry.

Community health workers are needed to improve health outcomes in poor neighborhoods