The Washington Post details: One is called the payroll survey. It asks mostly large companies and government agencies how many people they ...

In my post outlining the decline in employment (excluding teens), reader Mike pointed out another interesting phenomenon: One of the storie...

Peter Boockvar provides details of the ugly job report: June Payrolls totaled 80,000, 20,000 less than expected and well below the ADP whis...

Per Felix Salmon : As Mike Konczal noted this morning, a key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re s...

The NY Times details: The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less tha...

Upon first glance, Friday's employment release was disappointing , but Scott Grannis pointed to something that does provide optimism. I...

While the payroll (i.e. business) survey showed a net gain of 120,000 jobs in March (which in itself was weak), the household survey (the su...

The Washington Post details: U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recessi...

As I detailed yesterday , over the past few years: the population grew at a much faster rate than previously expected The result is that whi...

Good News The LA Times details the good news coming out of this morning's jobs report: The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straigh...

My last post Men at Work outlined that employment among men has rebounded since 2009, while employment among women has stagnated over that ...

The NY Post details (hat tip Eddy ): Since the US economic recovery started in mid-2009, a whopping 97 percent of the new jobs — all but 43...

The Good: Unemployment rates (both headline and those including underemployed) continued to decline. The Bad: unemployment rates continued t...

Is this finally an employment figure that shows we are out of the weeds? Not so fast per Peter Boockvar (via The Big Picture ): ADP said pri...

First the (very strong) "headline", then the details. The WSJ with the headline: The U.S. labor market strengthened in November a...

The BLS released their latest Business Employment Dynamics report that breaks out positive change in employment (by expansions and new busi...

Last Thursday, my friend GYSC had a post at his blog Economic Disconnect titled Odd Jobs Over the Years . He outlined the jobs he has had ...

NPR reports: U.S. employers advertised more jobs in September than at any other point in the past three years. The increase suggests hiring...

BusinessWeek details: U.S. employment climbed in October at the slowest pace in four months, illustrating the “frustratingly slow” progress...

PBS details: According to the "establishment survey" of places that hire, the economy added more jobs than predicted: just over 1...