July BLS Report: ‘Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative’
For skeptics of the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, July provided plenty of fodder. Superficially, the numbers looked good, and... Read More
Good June Bureau of Labor Statistics Report – Except for the Fine Print
At first blush, the June Bureau of Labor Statistics report looked decent. Last month, the economy created 287,000 jobs. But analysts’ excitement... Read More
Cataclysmically Bad May BLS Report, Soaring Immigration, Advancing Automation, Set Backs for U.S. Workers
Analysts hoped that the May Bureau of Labor Statistics report would show job creation at 164,000. Instead, BLS reported only a feeble... Read More
Calamitous BLS Report Underlines Ongoing Employment Crisis for American Workers
I’m running out of adjectives to describe the consistently awful monthly reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For April, I’m using... Read More
March Bureau of Labor Statistics Report Masks Rough Economic Sailing Ahead
From the report: 215,000 new jobs, but as usual many in part-time or low-paying sectors like retail, construction and health care while... Read More
February Jobs Report Offers Mixed Bag, but Oil Industry Gets Hammered
The February Bureau of Labor Statistics report had something for the bulls, and something for the bears. Oil industry lay off casualties.... Read More
For American Workers, Bad TPP News Dwarfs Poor January BLS Report
Last month, as Wall Street anticipated, only 151,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were created, with 70 percent of the new jobs driven by... Read More
Job Growth Still Not Keeping Up with Population Increases
Millions more work authorized immigrants to enter 2016 labor pool. Despite enthusiastic headlines about the recovering American economy, job growth is only... Read More
Omnibus, Obama’s Work-Permits-for-All Madness Dwarf December BLS Tedium
The biggest recent economic news isn’t the December jobs report as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Americans have long ago... Read More
November BLS: Another Ho-Hummer
The November Bureau of Labor Statistics report is the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of ho-hummers that included some marginally good... Read More