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
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
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
Carrier, Hertz Cut U.S. Workers; Some Jobs Going to Mexico, Others Likely to H-1Bs
February has been a bad, bad month for American workers. First came the totally dismal Bureau of Labor Statistics report which found... 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
The Alienation of Americans
As the political campaigns for the Presidency continue and multiple debates provide American voters with the candidates’ positions, without exception, the candidates... Read More
BLS September Report: Disaster!
Once again the Wall Street experts were way off target on their jobs-added predictions in advance of the September Bureau of Labor... Read More
Summer 2015: American Youth Shut Out
A website that specializes in placing temporary foreign-born workers in summer jobs inadvertently proves why critics oppose the J-1 visa. Regardless of... Read More