When it comes to stagnating wages, Barack Obama and John McCain agree on one thing: Americans are suffering. And that's about all they agree on.
Small businesses drove much of the employment growth in July, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll manager Automatic Data Processing. Firms with fewer than 50 workers added 50,000 new non-farm jobs to the private sector this month, which offset the 41,000 jobs dropped at medium and large companies.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are focusing on the economy Monday and telling voters that they offer the better solution when it comes to creating jobs.
The labor market is expected to end 2007 with a whimper, but even that modest forecast could be seen as "the good old days," since monthly job losses may become common in the year ahead, according to economists.
Economists aren't worried about job losses any longer, but sluggish growth looks like it's here to stay.
To hear environmentalists tell it, investing in renewable energy won't just provide a clean source of power, it will create an explosion of new jobs.
The big and unexpected job loss in August shook economists and investors, and while the September report due Friday is expected to show a hiring rebound, job seekers should still be nervous.
Amidst a sub-par economic performance and slowing in productivity, employers remain cautious, but optimistic, in their recruitment plans for the third quarter.
The great American hiring boom is slowing down--but as labor cools with the rest of the economy, a few choice regions will stay red-hot. You just have to know where to look.
Business 2.0 Magazine highlights the cities with the highest job-growth rates for college-educated tech and business professionals.
When it comes to stagnating wages, Barack Obama and John McCain agree on one thing: Americans are suffering. And that's about all they agree on.
Small businesses drove much of the employment growth in July, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll manager Automatic Data Processing. Firms with fewer than 50 workers added 50,000 new non-farm jobs to the private sector this month, which offset the 41,000 jobs dropped at medium and large companies.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are focusing on the economy Monday and telling voters that they offer the better solution when it comes to creating jobs.
The labor market is expected to end 2007 with a whimper, but even that modest forecast could be seen as "the good old days," since monthly job losses may become common in the year ahead, according to economists.
Economists aren't worried about job losses any longer, but sluggish growth looks like it's here to stay.
To hear environmentalists tell it, investing in renewable energy won't just provide a clean source of power, it will create an explosion of new jobs.
The big and unexpected job loss in August shook economists and investors, and while the September report due Friday is expected to show a hiring rebound, job seekers should still be nervous.
Amidst a sub-par economic performance and slowing in productivity, employers remain cautious, but optimistic, in their recruitment plans for the third quarter.
The great American hiring boom is slowing down--but as labor cools with the rest of the economy, a few choice regions will stay red-hot. You just have to know where to look.
Business 2.0 Magazine highlights the cities with the highest job-growth rates for college-educated tech and business professionals.
Robert Youngjohns has a problem that most CEOs would envy. His company, San Jose-based Callidus Software, is expanding so fast he can't find enough workers to fill all the job openings.
Payroll growth was the weakest in two years in February but a lower unemployment rate and a revision higher for January job growth hinted at surprising resilience in the nation's labor market.
The question of why the economy hasn't added more jobs since the 2001 recession ended may get this answer Friday morning: It probably did.
Recent concerns about a weakening U.S. economy took a step back Friday morning as the closely watched December employment report showed much stronger job and wage growth than had been expected.
The biggest problem with job growth right now isn't too few new jobs. It's too few skilled workers.
President Bush touted lower than expected jobless numbers issued today for September but ignored lackluster job creation during the same month by citing longer-term numbers showing net job growth.
Job growth in September slumped to levels not seen since the post-Hurricane Katrina period, as the government's latest reading on the job market set off alarms in the stock market.
The nation's tech industry posted the strongest job growth of any six-month period since 2001 during the first half of this year, according to a trade association.
The latest government job report met both economists' forecasts and Wall Street's best hopes, showing an economy strong enough to add jobs but not so hot as to spark more inflation - and more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
From a casual look at the jobs numbers, the labor market is just in the summer doldrums. The last four monthly job reports have reported the economy adding less than 150,000 jobs a month - the bare minimum we need to keep up with population growth.
Job growth came in weak for the fourth straight month in July while the unemployment rate rose, according to a government report Friday that could give the Federal Reserve reason to pause in its two-year-old campaign to raise interest rates.
The labor market posted weak job growth for the third straight month, according to a government report Friday, although a jump in wages could keep the Federal Reserve on its course of raising interest rates.
Payroll growth in April was the weakest since shortly after last summer's hurricanes, the government said Friday, but there were signs of a tighter labor market in the report as well.
Those looking to glimpse the future of the housing market may want to start watching help-wanted ads rather than the real estate section.
Job growth picked up in February, topping forecasts on Wall Street, according to a government report Friday.
Hiring slumped in December though the economy created 2 million jobs for the second straight year, the government said Friday, in a reading that was mostly weaker than Wall Street had expected.
Many on Wall Street are probably hoping for the worst when the government's December job report is released Friday.
U.S. payroll growth kicked back into gear in November, the government said Friday, in a report showing the labor market recovering from its post-Katrina weakness.
The economy has been humming along at a surprisingly strong clip but that's still tough to see in the nation's job market.
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A recovery may be underway in the tech industry, but the sector lags the rest of the economy when it comes to adding jobs, a new survey said Tuesday.
The labor market might have weathered August despite record-high oil prices, but the devastation of Hurricane Katrina will take a big bite out of job creation for months to come, analysts said.
In a robust sign for the nation's economy, employers added more jobs to U.S. payrolls in July than expected, the government reported Friday.
The nation's unemployment rate in June fell to the lowest level in nearly four years even as job growth came in weaker than most economists' forecasts.
When the June jobs report comes out Friday, the first number traders and investors will react to is the payroll number: how many jobs the economy generated last month.
U.S. employers added the fewest jobs to payrolls in nearly two years in May, according to a government report Friday that showed the nation's labor market to be far weaker than Wall Street predicted.
A weak reading on manufacturing jolted financial markets Wednesday, but economists are holding to their view of a relatively strong employment report, due to be released Friday.
Growth in the job market isn't just Wal-Mart greeters or burger flippers any more.
Job growth took off in April and was stronger than originally thought in February and March, the government said Friday in a report that flew in the face of recent fears of a slowing U.S. economy.
Hiring has been surprising weak during some of the strongest periods of economic growth in recent years.
Employers added far fewer jobs in March than the previous month, as a much anticipated government report Friday came in well below Wall Street forecasts.
What: Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary
Economists are looking to the March employment report, due Friday morning, to decide if an improving labor market is a trend they can bank on.
The monthly job report gave investors and policy-makers reason to celebrate rather than worry for a change Friday as the pace of hiring finally showed signs of picking up.
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Waiting for the job market to bust out? Well, get ready for a long wait.
The job market started the new year in much the same way as it finished out the old -- posting disappointing job growth.
While the job market may be looking up for 2005, don't expect Friday's monthly payroll report to paint a clear picture of strength.
The pace of hiring picked up in December, the government said Friday, but job growth remains stubbornly sluggish more than three years after the end of the last recession.
The White House is projecting slower job growth next year and beyond despite forecasting solid economic growth.
Hit by rising health care and energy costs, employers announced more than 100,000 job cuts in November, capping the first three-month stretch above that level since early 2002, an outplacement firm said Tuesday.
Job growth slowed significantly in November, according to a government report Friday that came in far weaker than Wall Street forecasts and trimmed the strong number reported in the previous month.
The world may find out Friday if the surprisingly strong October job report was a trick -- a return to the job growth blips from early this year -- or the treat of a long-term improvement in the labor market.
Friday's October jobs report will be different in one important manner from those of the last few months: it will be simply an economic report, not the jumping off point for a political debate.
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U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs in September while the unemployment rate stayed unchanged, according to a government report Friday that came in weaker than Wall Street expectations.
The number of job cuts planned by U.S. employers jumped in September to the highest level in eight months while hiring announcements fell sharply, a job search firm said Tuesday.
(MONEY/ICR Poll, April 20) - The MONEY/ICR Poll has found that three-quarters of Americans say that if they had had a choice between enacting the 2003 tax cuts or spending additional money to create new jobs, they would have picked job creation.
While job growth picked up in August, growth isn't what worries Americans most about the labor market.
Job growth rebounded in the United States last month and the unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly, the government reported Friday, in one of the last big employment reports before the November election.
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The monthly jobs report will be especially important to George Bush and John Kerry when the Labor Department releases its numbers for August on Friday.
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The latest jobs report, showing far less growth for July than expected, emerged as a flash point on the campaign trail Friday with President Bush's stewardship of the economy long a target of criticism by Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry.
Though July's job report was far weaker than expected, and some of the economy's June soft patch apparently leaked into July, analysts believe the Fed is still likely to raise its key interest rate target this week.
Hiring by U.S. employers slowed significantly in July, according to a government report Friday, as the number of new jobs added to payrolls came in far below Wall Street expectations.
Fluke or an early warning sign of economic weakness: Friday morning's much anticipated July employment report will tell investors a lot about what's ahead, as well as how to think about June's disappointing reading on new jobs.
The number of job cuts planned by U.S. employers rose in July, while hiring announcements fell for the second straight month, an outplacement firm said Tuesday.
Stocks have rebounded smartly after coming near or touching their lows for the year in July. But this week, critical economic data will have to compete for traders' attention with a new terrorism threat against companies and financial institutions.
Job growth slowed dramatically in June, as employers added just 112,000 workers to payrolls last month, a number that came in well below forecasts by private economists.
The jobless recovery is over, killed by several months of strong jobs growth. The question now for economists and job seekers is how much longer the current hiring boom can last.
Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday promised to end the "middle-class squeeze" he blamed on President Bush's economic policies, telling union members they deserve a government that shares their values of "hard work, service and caring for one another."
Employers are adding jobs at the fastest pace in four years, a government report showed Friday, which is great for workers but could worry investors if it slows recent white-hot gains in corporate earnings.
U.S. stock markets have been obsessed with oil prices lately, almost completely ignoring the 500-pound gorilla of a job report coming on Friday, which could be far more important to the long-run health of the market.
Despite Friday's strong May employment report, the third straight month of big job gains, it will probably be late summer -- at the earliest -- before the general public embraces the idea of a strong labor market.
U.S. Treasury prices slid Wednesday as lower oil prices boosted equity markets, making safe haven investments less attractive, while fears over a strong payrolls report and better-than-expected auto sales pressured bonds.
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President Bush Saturday referred to job growth in several states key to his re-election campaign, to promote his economic policies and urge Congress to make his tax cuts permanent.
Employers added jobs at a surprisingly rapid clip for the second straight month in April and the unemployment rate fell, a government report showed Friday, as the nation's labor market finally showed signs of sustained improvement.
Is the jobless part of the jobless recovery over? Friday's April employment report will go a long way to answering that question.
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Riding a wave of increased optimism from a government report on job growth, President Bush announced Monday a proposal to overhaul the nation's federal job training programs, saying it would help meet the needs of Americans in a changing economy.
Spring is here and the long winter of labor market discontent may be over.
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray played Phil Connors, a TV weatherman stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over again. Many economists probably feel a little bit like grizzled old Phil right now when they hunker down to forecast U.S. government stats on the labor market.
The economy grew by more than 3% in 2003, and third-quarter growth was the highest in nearly two decades. Inflation is low. Home ownership is at record levels. And the stock market is up nearly 50%...
With his party $11 million richer from last night's unity dinner, John Kerry travels to Michigan today to take a whack at the soft spot in President Bush's economic recovery -- jobs.
Pledging to create 10 million new jobs in four years, presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry on Friday will begin to roll out his economic plan for the country in a series of three speeches, his campaign said.
New jobless claims were little changed last week, the government said Thursday, coming in near Wall Street forecasts and raising some hopes for a strong monthly jobs report next week.
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President Bush touted his administration's policies for strengthening the economy in his weekly pretaped radio address Saturday, while the Democratic response advised against trusting the president's rosy picture.
As if President Bush didn't have enough headaches in his bid for re-election -- the troubles in Iraq, a stubbornly sluggish job market and persistent Democratic criticism of his policies -- he's now taking flak from some of his own supporters about his economic message.
Happy birthday, stock market rally. This week marks your one-year anniversary.
Two disappointments -- anemic job growth in February and a lackluster first-quarter forecast from Intel -- sent stocks lower early Friday.
U.S. payrolls grew in February at a far slower pace than the prior month, the government said Friday, in a report that disappointed Wall Street expectations for the fourth month in a row.
Though some economists hope Friday will bring blockbuster payroll growth figures, there are few signs the job market was much different in February than in January, when it was recovering but far from full strength.
New jobless claims fell in the United States last week, the government said Thursday, matching Wall Street forecasts.
Consumer confidence sank in February to its lowest level since last fall, hurt by persistent weakness in the job market, a research group said Tuesday.
The White House sought Thursday to defuse criticism of its economic policies in the wake of its apparent retreat from a report on jobs projections, an issue that Democrats have seized on this election year.
Alan Greenspan told Congress last week that a slowdown in productivity was probably the key to stronger job growth this year, and he seemed optimistic it would happen, and fairly soon -- echoing a similar recent promise by the White House.
A closely watched measure of consumer confidence in the United States tumbled in February, according to a published report Friday, coming in well below Wall Street forecasts.
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