unemployment and layoffs

Baltimore needs the kind of job opportunities Maryland's hospitals are proposing.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City is hiring more than 80 people -- including 50 additional maintenance workers -- as part of a sweeping plan to address

Maryland added 10,800 jobs in October and unemployment remained flat at 5.1 percent.

Companies that bid for work knowing they're going to subcontract to someone who pays $16-straight can underbid companies that follow the rules. Those companies lose jobs, the state of Maryland loses tax revenue and the workers lose pay and benefits they would otherwise get. Preventing this kind of cheating is the job of state agencies. The question is whether they'll do it.

Laurel Hospital will spend the next few years transitioning from a full-service hospital to an outpatient facility, sparking community outrage

Criticisms of Barack Obama's two terms doesn't fit the facts

Friday, the Labor Department will issue another mediocre jobs report, and the White House will spin it into a sign that the economy is doing quite well with a Democrat in the White House. But is it? A comparison of Obama's results and Reagan's.

Leaders of Baltimore's embattled public housing authority have eliminated the office designed to root out misconduct and hold employees accountable.

A number of Baltimore City schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following mid-year budget cuts. Nearly 130 staff were left looking for job placements after the school district imposed budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to be lower than estimated before the school year began.

Maryland businesses will pay less in unemployment insurance taxes next year, a sign of improvement in the state economy.

Raise the federal gas tax or face the even more costly alternative of bad roads and worsening traffic congestion

Maryland employers cut 4,000 jobs in September, losses that cut into summer gains and continued the bumpy recovery of the state's labor market.

Six defendants, including two Marylanders, were indicted on fraud and identity theft charges in a $1.5 million unemployment insurance scheme, federal prosecutors said.

Comments have been circulating on social media about a statement made about a Carroll County estimate of increase in property tax needed for the school system to meet Carroll County Public Schools' financial obligations.

The Carroll County Health Department has cut several staffed positions from various programs and eliminated its audiology department as a result of a $420,000 funding shortfall due to a state-mandated employee salary increase.

Dimensions Healthcare System representatives confirmed Monday that an additional 84 Laurel Regional Hospital employees have received pink slips that will take effect Nov. 7, marking a total of 118 layoffs since the hospital owner's announced the facilities closure and transition into a $24 ambulatory care center on July 31.

Maryland's unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in August as employers added 2,700 jobs, according to new Labor Department estimates released Friday.

Armed with a special $5 million grant, the city is poised to launch a job-training program to help at least 700 young adults from struggling Baltimore neighborhoods find work as plumbing and electrical apprentices, automotive technicians and lab associates.

Here's how Gov. Larry Hogan blew the politics of making government more efficient.

Since 2008, the Federal Reserve has kept the federal funds rate — the banks' overnight borrowing rate — near zero. Now more confident about prospects for growth and inflation, policymakers are preparing to raise those short-term rates. Higher borrowing costs for banks can cause mortgage rates to jump, jobs to become scarcer and stock to tumble — but not always. Here are five things you need to know before the hike.

In announcing that she would not seek re-election, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday she's proud of her record.

Today marks Labor Day, the national holiday dedicated to the achievements of the American worker. Most of us will celebrate the day at the beach or with a cookout or doing ironically exactly the opposite of what the day celebrates, the satisfaction of going to work and earning a living. But in this current day, celebrating a job seems more than appropriate. With economic uncertainty seemingly everywhere, having a job -- and maybe more concerning -- keeping a job isn't a given anymore.

AOL said Thursday morning it plans to buy Baltimore mobile advertising company Millennial Media for about $248 million in a deal that would create a single hub for the industry known as "ad tech" here.

Putting city residents to work on Baltimore's $1 billion school renovation project looks like a win-win situation

Baltimore City school officials are seeking to relax hiring rules to make applicants with nonviolent misdemeanor convictions — such as drug possession and burglary — eligible for jobs renovating school buildings.

In a combative appearance before the Baltimore City Council, Baltimore Schools CEO Gregory Thornton said Monday that the district is having difficulty retaining principals — but chided the city for not providing more money for its public schools.

The U.S. should follow the British model and establish its own boot camps for the unemployed, says Cal Thomas.

Maryland employers added more than 9,000 jobs in July, according to a new Department of Labor survey data released Friday.

Examining post-unrest violent crime in Baltimore

A company specializing in wheelchair accessible van conversions is moving to Westminster, and is expecting to hire an additional 400 positions within the next three years.

Hillary Clinton's college proposal is a vote-buying effort that will add one more entitlement to an economy that can't afford it.

The Baltimore Sun Media Group's free weekly newspaper b will cease publication at the end of the month, seven years after it launched targeting a younger audience.

Cierra Geiger, 16, manned the cash register at Undersea Outfitters on Tuesday, a dive shop in Westminster where she has spent her summer providing customer service, filling dive tanks and unloading equipment at the small business.

As the number of poor children in Maryland rises, lawmakers need to focus on policies that support parents' ability to improve the lives of their kids

Maryland employers shed 6,200 jobs in June — one of the largest monthly declines in the country, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

The U.S. economy would grow by 2 percent if labor force participation among men of color was equal to that of white men, according to a report released Tuesday by the Obama administration that is intended to highlight White House efforts to reach out to young minority men.

Hunt Valley-based armored car company Dunbar Armored plans to lay off 100 employees next month, according to a notice filed Tuesday with the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Government-mandated paid sick leave received a healthy boost from the Montgomery County Council this week

Calling for a renewed effort to eliminate poverty, federal lawmakers met in Baltimore on Tuesday to discuss underlying issues they said contributed to the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent riots: racism, lack of economic opportunity and disparities in education.

Recently, the Democratic members of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, working in partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus, issued a report on the economic challenges facing African Americans today. It found that vast disparities remain. We plan to explore these startling inequities at a Congressional Black Caucus and Joint Economic Committee forum to be held Tuesday morning at the University of Baltimore.

More than 80 years of alcohol production and distribution history will reach what could be its final chapter when Diageo shuts down bottling operations at its Relay site.

WASHINGTON — An effort to privatize commissaries used by service members at military installations such as Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground is meeting with stiff resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers who say the proposal would lead to reduced benefits.

A City Council committee on Tuesday declined to approve hundreds of millions of dollars for Baltimore's schools, saying education officials had misled them to believe layoffs would be limited to central office staff — then sent pink slips to 59 school-based employees.

On Friday, the owner of Joe Squared was one of several dozen business owners who attended a business recovery workshop hosted by Gov. Larry Hogan's office at the campus of Morgan State University. The event was held to provide information to local businesses affected by the rioting following the death of Freddie Gray.

The city's youth employment program has 1,000 more applicants than jobs this summer, Baltimore officials said Wednesday, as they urged employers to help close a funding gap to hire more city teens and young adults. YouthWorks, the city's five-week summer program for 14- to- 21-year olds, needs $1.5 million to reach a goal of providing jobs for 8,000 young people.

T. Rowe Price announced Tuesday it would outsource 220 accounting and record-keeping jobs to New York City-based financial firm BNY Mellon this summer.

Fifty-nine Baltimore school employees received layoff notices Friday in a second round of cutbacks imposed by the school district this week.