BLS May Report: Weaker than Anticipated; March, April Revisions Down, Bombshell in Footnotes
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, in May, only 138,000 jobs were created, fewer than Wall Street’s estimated 185,000. According to... Read More
April Bureau of Labor Statistics Report: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
President Donald Trump’s election encouraged economists that more jobs would soon be on the way. But the April Bureau of Labor Statistics... Read More
Dreary March BLS Report Should Motivate Trump to Get Busy on his Promise to Reduce Immigration
The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report is surely not what President Trump wished for. The economy added a measly 98,000 jobs,... Read More
February BLS Unspectacular, but Pew Report Projecting Huge Working-Age Immigrant Increases Alarming
The Bureau of Labor Statistics sort-of-okay jobs report for February isn’t the week’s most significant economic news. BLS data showed that in... Read More
January Employment is Mixed Report – Increases in Low-Paying Segments
In the Trump administration’s first Bureau of Labor Statistics report, January data had a mix of good, bad and ugly news. The... Read More
The Obama Administration’s Swan Song BLS Report: 95.1 Million Not in Labor Market
In December, the economy created 157,000 jobs, about 20,000 less than Wall Street analysts predicted. Of those 156,000 jobs, 41,000 were part-time.... Read More
Great Jobs News (for Carrier Employees), but November BLS Report Bad News for Others
A Merry Christmas for these Carrier employees and hundreds of their co-workers. On the rosy side, President-elect Donald Trump saved 1,000 jobs... Read More
Last Pre-Election BLS Report is Spectacularly Underwhelming
Analysts hoped that the October economy would have generated 175,000 new jobs. The actual number the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported was... Read More
September BLS Report Ignores, as it Always Does, American Job Displacement
The September Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report announced that the economy generated 156,000 new jobs, fewer than the 176,000 Wall Street... Read More
August BLS Report, Labor Day Edition: Table Waiting, Bartending Employment Booming
This summer, my granddaughter had a part-time job as a cashier at a large box store retailer. Last month, before she left... Read More