The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report on Friday. Even though the United States economy is at a level considered full employment, it was an overall mixed result. 153,000 jobs were added in the month of August. While this is a strong number, it is below the […]
The Labor Department announced that 223,000 jobs were added in June. This was a tad lower than expected and also lower than May’s jobs report. In May, 254,000 jobs were added. The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.3%, the lowest since April 2008. The decline came […]
“Three years after the Obama administration proclaimed ‘welcome to the recovery,’ we’re still seeing the same thing month after month: not enough new jobs and an unemployment rate far higher than promised. Nearly five years of aggressive intervention by Washington – the ‘stimulus’ era of excessive spending, excessive red tape, […]
