Is immigration at its limit? Not for employers
Restaurants, farms and other businesses say they need more foreign workers. And economic growth may depend on it, given lower birthrates.
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As hiring slows, employers say it’s getting harder to find workers
The labor shortage has helped workers who were hit hardest during the recession: Minimum-wage earners, African-Americans, Latinos and Americans with a high school diploma or...
Public-sector employees are losing their foothold in the middle class VIEW
The ranks of state and local employees have languished even as the populations they serve have grown. And the 19.5 million workers who remain in...
IRS paid $20 million to private firms that collected $6.7 million in tax debts
Private contractors in new program cost far more than they recovered, and ignored protections for poor and disabled taxpayers, an agency watchdog reports.
Have you ever felt sorry for the IRS? Now might be the time
While processing tens of millions of tax returns for 2017 under the current rules, the IRS also has to interpret and explain a new system...
GOP proposing big departure: same income, different tax rates
Under the GOP tax-overhaul plans, for the first time since the United States adopted an income tax, a higher rate would be applied to employee...
It started as a tax cut; now it could change American life
In the Republican tax plan, corporate taxes, along with those on the rich, would be cut on the presumption that when people in penthouses get...
Traffic-light crusader fined for doing math without a license
A suburban Portland resident fined for engaging in the “practice of engineering” without a license as he argued for a traffic-light revision is suing the...