Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy ResearchAug 7, 2023
The July jobs report was largely positive: low unemployment levels, high job creation, and consistent GDP growth. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / The Associated PressMay 3, 2019
The numbers suggest fewer concerns about sustaining economic growth as the recovery from the Great Recession nears the decade mark. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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JOSH BOAK / The Associated PressJan 4, 2019
The Labor Department also notes that average hourly pay has improved 3.2 percent from a year ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 7, 2016
U.S. industry added 242,000 jobs in February—but the major gains were in low-wage industries, and average hourly earnings dropped 3 cents. And unemployment rates remained far higher for minorities than for whites. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 11, 2015
Yes, all of the U.S. jobs lost to the Great Recession were recovered by mid-2014. But “we didn’t manage to create enough new jobs to satisfy the shortfall” in positions that would have been made “had the economy kept chugging along at a reasonably normal pace,” writes Suzanne McGee at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 7, 2014
Despite 9 million Americans remaining out of work, economists hailed the drop of the U.S. unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2008 on Friday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigOct 7, 2014
President Obama is clearly frustrated that having inherited an economy that was at death's door, he is getting remarkably little credit for getting it back on its feet. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigApr 5, 2014
What does the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision this week have to do with Friday's jobs report, showing 192,000 new jobs for March? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigFeb 10, 2014
How can bad news on Main Street (only 113,000 jobs were created in January, on top of a meager 74,000 in December) cause good news on Wall Street? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 9, 2013
Transportation and warehouse companies have added jobs, factory employees exceeded 12 million people for the first time in four years, the elderly are seeking work, pay remains stagnant at the bottom, and the long-term unemployed are still screwed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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