U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Articles
The U.S. growth engine is still moving. Unfortunately, that growth and enthusiasm and strength has started to dial down in recent weeks.
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The national unemployment rate for March was 4.5%. In five states is it much lower. That shows how much the jobless situation can differ from place to place.
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The unemployment rate among black Americans was more than 8% in March, well above the national rate.
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The latest employment situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics simultaneously may be blamed on weather and may question some of the new pro-growth expansion's real effectiveness.
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With the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting kicking off on Tuesday and with a decision on interest rates due on Wednesday afternoon, investors are scrutinizing every last minute bit of...
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Maybe all that post-election economic hope and all the day in and day out record highs on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and in the S&P 500 Index had some meat to it after all.
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This Friday's unemployment report is also one of the freshest economic views before Federal Reserve decides whether to raise interest rates at the March FOMC meeting.
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Full employment, inflation at the top of the Fed's target range, expected tax cuts, pro-growth and reflationary policies: eventually these will add up to rate hikes.
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While the economy has added millions of jobs over the last year, and in January added 227,000 which drove an unemployment rate of 4.8%, the rate among Black Americans remained high at 7.7% The...
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After ADP posted a shockingly higher than expected payrolls figure for January, the solid jobs news was more than confirmed by the U.S. Department of Labor in its key employment situation report.
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If economists and investors were looking for confirmation that the post-election rally was going to turn into real growth in economic readings, look no further than the January ADP Employment Report.
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Just last week, producer prices indicated a stalling out at the wholesale level. But what happens in prices at the consumer level often lags the wholesale level.
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Fresh economic data from Friday, January 13, 2017 might be signaling that the recent gains made in the reflationary pressure are already peaking — or at least stalling.
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he Labor Department said that 2016 added more than 2 million jobs for the sixth straight year. The more import reading was that workers earned more.
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Even if the new president can persuade companies to increase or bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs, those jobs very likely will be no more than temporary as robotics and artificial intelligence get...
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