unemployment and layoffs

Members of the Washington Metro's largest union have voted overwhelmingly to authorize their leader to call for a strike amid an extended labor dispute.

The state's unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in March but Maryland added 3,200 jobs.

According to the non-partisan CBO, the federal budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion by 2020, and the national debt will rise to a staggering $29 trillion by 2028. And yet, despite our prolific spending, we fall far short of realizing the quality of life that our outlays suggest we should expect

Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer doesn't mince words. Workplace stress — the result of conditions like long hours, a lack of health insurance, little autonomy on the job, high job demands — don't just hit productivity or damage morale. They're killing us.

Maryland unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent after losses were logged in hospitality and professional service sectors.

Maryland added nearly 13,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Monday.

The mainstream media has ignored the biggest story of the last year — the monumental success of President Trump's first year for American workers and families.

The Harford school board approved a $466.2 million fiscal 2018 budget request Monday, adding $100,000 to support the office of Equity and Cultural Proficiency in the wake of a racist incident at Bel Air High School.

Amid years of declining enrollment, university president Kurt Schmoke was faced this year with closing a more than $4 million budget gap.

Trump takes credit for rise in African American voter support and decline in unemployment - neither is deserved.

The first year of Making America Great Again is over. So how did President Donald Trump do compared to President Barack Obama?

Maryland lost an estimated 20,200 jobs in December as the state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans got a pretty big win earlier this week when Apple announced it would be investing $350 billion into the economy in the coming years, creating a new campus to house technical support for customers and adding 20,000 new jobs. But what about wages?

Baltimore Gas & Electric plans to pass on about $82 million in tax savings to customers as a result of federal tax reform that lowered the corporate tax rate.

Americans should celebrate the tax reform promised by President Donald Trump and Republicans — one that has the potential to rival tax reform under conservative President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and one which has the potential to unleash the American economy in ways unseen in years.

The University of Baltimore has cut nearly 400 employees’ salaries to help mitigate the impact of “significant fiscal challenges” facing the school amid persistently declining enrollment.

Maryland lost 5,500 jobs in October but unemployment remains unchanged at 3.8 percent.

Under Armour’s stock nosedived Tuesday after the company announced a narrow profit for the third quarter and cuts its projections for the rest of the year.

Maryland adds 2,400 jobs in September as unemployment falls

Maryland added more than 14,000 jobs in August, the second highest gain in seven years, as the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

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Under Armour launching new #WEWILL campaign aimed at city

Jobs in services, computers, health care saw biggest gains in state since recession.

Maryland added 800 jobs in July as the state’s unemployment rate continued to tick downward.

Even as he touts the state’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is risking an opportunity to make a real dent in Maryland’s carbon pollution.

Our first black president ignored poor city blacks as both the murder rate and unemployment soared. In contrast, Mr. Trump has been keeping his word on jobs and attempting to put forth his agenda to help all of us all while being blocked by Democrats, Republicans and haters.

The Baltimore school system expects to encounter deficits as great as $30 million in future years

Groupon deal with Grubhub to acquire OrderUp markets, lay off 60 employees

Under Armour is cutting about 2 percent of its global workforce of 15,000, the company said Tuesday, announcing a sweeping restructuring plan.

Recent political issues surrounding refugees entering the United States has various companies falling over each other offering jobs for refugees. Starbucks,

Direct Energy, a Houston-based natural gas and electricity retailer, will lay off 108 of its employees in Maryland, according to a notice it provided to the state on Tuesday.

Maryland added 13,300 jobs in June and the unemployment rate dipped slightly, according to the latest federal employment report.

Locke Insulators to close, lay off 108 workers

The recently announced sale of Whole Foods to Amazon is a betrayal of its touted principles.

Maryland's unemployment rate improved slightly last month, but at the same time the state lost some jobs, according to preliminary government data released Friday

The Harford County Board of Education approved a $446 million operating budget for the school system Monday, although 36 teaching positions had to be eliminated in order to get there, along with other spending reductions.

A couple of dozen U.S. Postal Service workers protested the potential loss of more than 100 local jobs Saturday outside of Baltimore's main post office on Fayette Street.

In the few years, Holly Poultry plans to quadruple volume and nearly double the workforce to meet a growing demand for poultry

The Baltimore Teachers Union has filed a second grievance over the layoff of teachers and aides last week, saying city schools administrators failed to provide required notice that would allow union leaders to try and save the jobs.

Rather than making up the budget short-fall on the backs of Baltimore City school employees — those hard-working men and women who help make the real difference in the lives of our young people — perhaps it's time to rethink where the blame truly lies for the budget issues and hold those in power more accountable.

Baltimore city school administrators will layoff 115 people Thursday, including 21 people who work as librarians or school counselors and 24 assistant principals, the district has announced.

While the state has added nearly 100,000 jobs since January 2015, the head of Gov. Larry Hogan's Workforce Development Board says there are not enough people

Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning officials and consultants with McCormick Taylor unveiled their hydrology and hydraulic study, which provides possible solutions and recommendations to address flooding in Ellicott City.

Baltimore school district officials plan to deploy a team trained in counseling methods across the city Thursday to layoff teachers for the first time in a decade.

Over the last three years, by cutting programs like the Geographic Cost of Education Index (GCEI), capping much-needed inflationary formula adjustments and diverting funds to nonpublic religious schools while public schools are drastically underfunded, Governor Larry Hogan has consistently failed to prioritize the needs of Maryland's public school students.

Maryland added 3,500 jobs in April, but the state's unemployment rate ticked up slightly, as more people joined the workforce than were able to find jobs, according to the latest federal jobs report.

As City Council members consider ways to divert more money to Baltimore schools, district officials said Tuesday it's too late to prevent layoffs for as many as 300 teachers and administrators.

Workers such as food servers, office cleaners and security guards would keep their jobs when service contracts change hands at Baltimore hotels, casinos, universities and other facilities, under a proposal making its way through the City Council.

Baltimore city schools CEO Sonja Santelises proposed cutting more than 300 jobs from teachers to central office administrators in her budget plan released Friday.

When the 2017-2018 school year begins at the John Carroll School in Bel Air, it will be a bit different from this year. President Richard O'Hara, who has been at the school for 10 years, is retiring at the end of June, and a new principal, Tom Durkin, begins his tenure leading the Patriots in mid-June.