Another month of weak job growth as the official unemployment rate drops to 8.1%. U6 at 14.5%
In a new report certain to generate consternation in the stock market and the White House but private glee in the Republican Party, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that the private sector generated a seasonally adjusted 130,000 jobs in ...
General strike of the unemployed
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States cut their way to … increased unemployment
Around the world, we're seeing the disastrous outcomes of the passion for "austerity," basically governments cutting services and investments in the future to the bone while refusing to raise revenues by taxing the rich or corporations. They claim the ...
Michelle Obama touts progress on hiring of young veterans
Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden at a Joining Forces nurses event (Lawrence Jackson/Official photo)
Michelle Obama is on the road marking the first anniversary of her "Joining Forces" initiative to help veterans find jobs. The unemployment rate amon...
Initial unemployment claims rise to 380,000
(The Maddow Blog)
The Department of Labor is reporting that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose to 380,000 last week, an increase of 13,000 over the previous week's revised figure. The four-week moving average, a measure preferred by many ...
Georgia legislature lets anti-picketing bill die but targets jobless people and welfare applicants
Georgia's anti-picketing bill, SB 469, was not passed by the state House before the end of the legislative session at midnight on March 29. That means the bill, which was written by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and amended repeatedly as opposition ...
Rick Santorum: ‘I don’t care what the unemployment rate is going to be"
(Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Rick Santorum, today:
"We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who's going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race," Santorum told a crowd of abou...
Latino share of labor force projected to grow
The quickly growing Latino population in the United States may lag as a share of voters, but it is ahead of other groups as a share of the labor force. Pew's Rajesh Kochhar examines a Bureau of Labor Statistics projection that between 2010 and 2020, 7...
Jobs report: 227,000 jobs created in February, unemployment rate unchanged at 8.3%
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the private sector generated 233,000 jobs in February, with 227,000 total jobs created as the public sector, led by the federal government, lost 6,000 jobs—an improvement over 2011, when an average of 22,00...
Average weekly hours rise hints at more jobs to come, but new hires at entry level getting paid less
Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute spotlighted some additional positive news for the future of the nation's still rough labor situation Thursday. In short, average weekly work hours are approaching where they were when the Great Recessio...
Mitt Romney thinks unconstitutional drug-testing of welfare applicants is ‘a great idea’
Mitt Romney rides the wave of Republican-controlled states trying to make people seeking unemployment or welfare benefits take drug tests—a few of which will be holding their presidential primaries soon:
Jeff Hullinger: [Lawmakers] have bantered abo...
