Friday (6/6) we get the May employment readings. Therefore, it’s time to get prepared and, in particular, to protect ourselves from the negative twists that seem to accompany these reports, regardless ...

It's been five and a half years since the recession started, and four years since the recovery began. It's been a brutal time for the U.S. job market (obviously), and the picture is still pretty bleak ...

In February this year, the U.S. economy added 240,000 jobs. At that pace, we would close the American jobs gap in June 2018. Yes, 2018. In six years and four months. In March, the economy added only ...

The good news from January's jobs report was that official unemployment unexpectedly fell from 10% to 9.7%. The bad news was ... just about everything else. Catherine Rampell from the New York Times' ...

The economy gained 217,000 jobs in May, bringing the total number of workers back to its pre-recession peak and finally putting one of the glummest graphs of job creation out of its misery. The graph ...

This graph is a favourite of the Department for Work and Pensions, and routinely takes the top spot on the department's own website when employment figures come out: It's perfectly accurate, but ...

The job market is getting stronger, but it's still far from healthy, according to this morning's big employment report. * The U.S. added 227,000 jobs in February. * Job growth was even higher than ...