March is Women’s History Month, and to add to that history, the White House released an organized compendium of statistics on American women, focusing on their income, education, employment, health and their relationship to crime and violence. White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama will be using this information More…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday its monthly jobs report showing that the unemployment rate declined from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — a decrease that is less remarkable upon further examination. The economy added 103,000 jobs in the last month — with the private sector adding 113,000 More…
Via Ezra Klein, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study this month on whether immigration hurts the economy and takes away jobs from American-born workers. In the study, which also looked at the impact of outsourcing, economists Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg More…
In light of last week’s dismal September jobs report, Heidi Shierholz, of the Economic Policy Institute, updates her estimates of how many jobs the United States needs to create to get back to where it was, employment-wise, when the recession started.
The labor market remains an
On Friday, the government will release the September jobs report, and some economists are bracing for the worst: a decrease in overall private employment and an increase in the unemployment rate, more evidence of a persistent stall-out in the recovery.
Two reports released this morning give fuel to those worries. More…
Mike Mandel posts a useful chart showing where college-educated young folks are getting jobs:
Earlier this year, Stanton C. Hazelroth appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify as the head of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the country’s largest public infrastructure bank. Founded with seed funding of just $181 million in 1999, the bank has since More…
This morning, ADP, a payroll processing firm, put out its latest employment report. It isn’t good. Between July and August, private employers shed an estimated 10,000 workers; economists expected an increase of about 20,000 jobs.
The headline on a top story in The New York Times today reads: “Wall Street Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery.” And here are the summary paragraphs:
The shift [towards hiring] underscores the remarkable recovery of the biggest banks and brokerage firms since Washington rescued them in the
Today, the Labor Department released its April survey of unemployment in 372 metropolitan areas across the United States. And it is a very good report: The rate of joblessness dropped in 346 areas, rose in 12 and remained flat in 14. That is a significant month-to-month improvement, as in More…
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