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The jobs report in five – nay, six! – charts
This morning’s jobs report was awful. Unemployment went down from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent, but nonfarm payrolls only increased by a dismal 96,000, with another 40,000 jobs lost in revisions of...
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How to read a jobs report
I noticed a fair amount of confusion Friday morning as to whether this was a good or a bad jobs report. After all, we added 96,000 jobs. That seems like a lot! And unemployment fell from 8.3 percent to...
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The jobs report in six charts
This morning’s jobs report was unexpectedly positive. Unemployment fell 0.3 points to 7.8 percent, and the economy gained 114,000 jobs in September – and revisions added another 86,000 jobs to the July...
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September jobs report said economy gained 114,000 jobs: Why that’s likely too...
Jobless Americans (Tim Boyle/Bloomberg) The most recent government jobs report showed that the U.S. economy gained 114,000 jobs in September. That was encouraging. But as we emphasized last week, the...
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How one private forecaster is beating the government at tracking job growth
We here at Wonkblog aren’t the only ones obsessed with the monthly jobs reports. There’s a whole cottage industry around predicting what the monthly numbers are going to say, and a major resource for...
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The jobs report, in six charts
October’s jobs report was much more positive than expected. The unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 7.9 percent, but we gained 171,000 jobs — big enough to be statistically...
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The soft underbelly of the new jobs report: stagnant pay
There’s no question that the October jobs report released Friday morning was the best in some time. Particularly encouraging was that employers reported stronger job creation than they had in September...
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The jobs report Friday is going to be a giant mess
The November jobs report is scheduled to come out at 8:30 Friday morning, and will surely be accompanied by the usual hyperactive analysis, rapid-fire tweeting, and general sense of eager anticipation....
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The jobs report, in six charts
November’s jobs report was generally positive, but with some notable caveats. Unemployment is down to 7.7 percent, the lowest since the financial crisis hit, and the economy gained 146,000 jobs. Then...
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Job creation steady in December, unemployment at 7.8%
View Photo Gallery —The unemployment rate in December was 7.8 percent, unchanged from November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Which sectors added more jobs than others in 2012? Here’s a...
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What to expect from Friday’s jobs report
The first major indicator of how the economy is performing in 2013 is due out Friday morning, and it will offer a window onto whether the job market is gaining momentum or stumbling in the new year....
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Austerity vs. the housing recovery: Which is a bigger deal for jobs?
Friday morning, when the Labor Department puts out its February jobs report, it will be the latest window into the fundamental clash that is key to understanding the United States economy in 2013. It...
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Great news on jobs: Unemployment rate falls to 7.7%, 236k added to payrolls
The latest report on the state of the U.S. job market offered good news all around, the best reading in months on the state of the economy. Jobs? There were 236,000 more of them on U.S. employers’...
View ArticleWonkTalk: Jobs numbers are good, but recovery is far from over
Neil and I discuss today’s surprisingly good jobs report, whether it’ll keep up now that the sequester has taken effect, and why state and local governments are losing so many jobs:
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What to expect from the big jobs report Friday morning
Economic data for March pointed pretty consistently to one idea: That we’re in the spring doldrums, with yet another spurt of weak growth underway. The first major data point for April comes out Friday...
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The amazingly consistent jobs recovery
We economics writers can be an excitable bunch, eager to draw big conclusions from thin data. Huge monthly job gains of more than 200,000 like we saw this winter? The economy is finally achieving...
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Everything you need to know about the May jobs report
Happy jobs day! The Labor Department announced Friday that the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May and that the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent, from 7.5 percent in April. Here’s a...
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The jobs report was pretty solid. So why aren’t wages rising?
The nice thing about the latest jobs number is how very normal they seem. The nation added 175,000 jobs in May, which is right on track with the trend over the past year (average monthly jobs gained:...
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Liveblogging the June jobs report
(Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June, according to a Labor Department report released Friday morning. The nation’s unemployment rate was at 7.6 percent. Follow...
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Bad news: We’re shedding factory jobs again
Not to be the guy blaring “Fortunate Son” at your Fourth of July picnic, but you know that great jobs report today? There’s an ugly little trend hidden in it: America looks like it’s back to laying off...
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