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More Jobs, Less Pay
Would you rather have an iphone 5 or running water? It might seem like a “well, duh,” kind of question, but it gets to the heart of something important about the jobs and growth debate right now.
Payroll Day Blues: Economy Adds Just 96,000 Jobs in August
The Democratic party spent all week (and millions of dollars) trying to convince voters to return President Obama to office in November. But perhaps the most important set piece — the August employment situation report — was …
Unemployment Rate Ticks Up to 8.3% — But There’s Good News, Too
The unemployment rate rose to 8.3% in July, but it’s probably the most hopeful jobs report in months.
Is High Unemployment Making Us All Sick?
Our persistently high unemployment rate is not only bad for the economy, it’s bad for our bodies and souls as well. Unemployment wears down the unemployed both mentally and physically. But high unemployment also hurts those …
Behind the Numbers: Slow Job Growth is a Problem; Long-term Unemployment is a Crisis
Any way you slice it, Friday’s jobs numbers were a huge disappointment. Forecasters were expecting 150,000 jobs added, and even that figure would have represented mediocre job growth. But the actual number of 67,000 new jobs …
March Unemployment: The Rorschach Jobs Report
March’s unemployment numbers were mediocre enough to be open to any number of interpretations. Republicans see evidence that the President’s policies have taken us off track. Obama just called it another bump in the road. Here are two reasons to despair and two reasons to celebrate about the latest data
What Will Tomorrows Job Report Hold For The U.S. Economy?
Tomorrow the Labor Department will release its monthly Employment Situation Report, which estimates the number of jobs the U.S. economy added in March as well as the new official unemployment rate.
According to Bloomberg News, economists predict that the report will show the economy gained 205,000 jobs in March, roughly in line with a …
Reactions to Tomorrow’s Employment Report, Today
Each month the Government and private organizations release dozens of statistics that help market participants and policy makers judge the health of the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s monthly Employment Situation Report …
Why the Future Depends on Today’s Discouraged Workers
The economy, the stock market and even the November elections will largely be determined by a group of people who are almost invisible to forecasters.
American Unemployment Falls to 8.6%: Amazing News, But Is It a Game Changer?
Just when we were expecting the economy to go boom it went zoom.
The unemployment rate in November dropped faster than it has in more than 11 years. You have to go back to September 2000 to get a quicker decline. What’s more, …
Double Dip? Job Market Recovery Looks Further Off
Forget jobs. Where are the workers?
The unemployment rate rose and job growth was nearly non-existent in what was probably the most disappointing piece of economic news since the start of the recovery in mid-2009. The government …
