“Department of Labor” on The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama’s Department of Labor launched a new Smartphone app last week that tells outdoor workers when it’s hot and humid outside. (more)

Floundering. Flopping around like a fish on deck. That’s the best description of the Obama administration this summer. The president’s now on a bus tour of the Heartland. Next, he’s slated to go to Martha’s Vineyard for a well-earned vacation. (more)

In what appears to be a gross Obama administration oversight, former Bush administration political officials are still receiving taxpayer-funded credit cards in the mail. (more)

After The Daily Caller first reported that Obama administration bureaucrats at the Labor Department vandalized “gay rights” posters in their building’s elevators on Monday, the administration’s political appointees there remained silent. (more)

In his all-too-brief Austin Powers fez-wearing role, Will Ferrell is dropped down the villain’s secret chute into a pit of fire, where he intermittently cries for help and pleads “I’m still alive, only I’m very badly burned.” He would know what it is like to be a business owner under President Obama. (more)

Republicans and employers across the country are calling foul in what is seen as a double whammy from the Obama administration this week. (more)

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis remains silent after The Daily Caller reported that her bureaucrats again vandalized posters promoting gay rights. (more)

The Daily Caller has obtained two photographs from inside the Department of Labor (DOL) elevators where Obama administration employees have again defaced photos equating gay rights with civil rights. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, though applications remain above levels consistent with a healthy economy. (more)

Chalk the Department of Labor’s most recent technological investment up to an “epic fail.”  (more)

On Friday, the Labor Department released it March jobs report showing a significant drop in the jobless rate – to 8.8 percent, a full percentage lower from November 2010, which the Los Angeles Times reports is the steepest drop in nearly three decades. (more)

This isn’t insanity. It’s insanity squared. Since the day Obama took office, he has tried to fleece, tax, regulate, redistribute, harass, and hound small business to death. I’ve argued again and again in media appearances and commentaries that Obama’s strategy appears to be right out of the playbook of Cloward & Piven, two Marxist professors from Columbia University (where Obama and I graduated as classmates in 1983). That strategy is overwhelming the business community, taxpayers, and high-income earners with so many socialist, Big Brother-like, job-killing bills, that we get dizzy and exhausted trying to keep up with them. Eventually they overwhelm the economy, cause massive unemployment, crisis, and dependency on big government. It’s happening before our very eyes — millions of Americans are now on 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and 45 million are dependent on food stamps. The system is officially overwhelmed. (more)

In voluntary testimony Wednesday morning before the House Education and Workforce Committee, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said she does not have the authority to administer parts of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act, or card check legislation, that failed during the Democrat-controlled 111th Congress. Card check is when labor organizers get employees to sign a card that, often unbeknownst to workers, can count as a vote in favor of unionization, and allows union bosses to forgo secret ballot elections. (more)

I applaud Sarah Palin’s passion, her adroit sense of humor, and her you-go-girl! gumption. But the more I learn about Sarah Palin, the more I become perplexed by her over-heated gender-bending rhetoric. (more)

Young women are outpacing men in educational attainment and there’s little sign males will make up ground any time soon. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate rose in 20 states last month as employers in most states shed jobs. (more)

Labor unions give more money to the Democratic Party than any other source, and critics have long accused President Barack Obama’s administration of doing their bidding.  Now there is evidence that the White House has indeed put its thumb on the scale on behalf of unions. After saying that “union jobs are, by and large, good jobs,” the Department of Labor’s “strategic plan” for the next five years says: “many of the Department’s outcome goals are furthered by high rates of union membership.” (more)

The Department of Labor has issued several million dollars in grants to community colleges and specialized universities around the country to train students for “green jobs” in renewable energy fields. While the grants are supposed to fund the future “rank and file” workers of the renewable energy industry, there’s a glaring problem the DOL seemingly overlooked — those jobs are either non-existent or scarce. (more)

With a budget of $65 million, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is touted as the most lavish musical ever mounted on Broadway. Much of the money has been invested in mechanical lifts and flying machines, high-tech costumes and, unfortunately, medical bills. Already one performer has broken both wrists, another has broken both feet, another has fractured his ribs and injured his back, and the leading actress has suffered a concussion that took her out of the show for a while. And Spider-Man hasn’t even officially opened yet. (It’s still in previews, and the official opening date, when the show will be set in stone and critics are invited to write their reviews, keeps being pushed back.) (more)

The Office of Labor Management Statistics (OLMS) was supposed to release an annual report tracking labor unions and evidence of corruption in union leadership in January 2010 but still hasn’t released the document. (more)