The U.S. economy added 321,000 jobs in November. While that number is startlingly high relative to just about any month in the last three years, it was not enough to push the unemployment rate needle--which still sits at 5.8%, according to the Department...

The U.S. economy added another 200,000+ jobs in October, and the unemployment rate is now down to 5.8%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor force participation is back up to 62.8% (from 62.7% in September--not a significant difference). Here's...

The unemployment rate has dropped below 6% after the U.S. economy added nearly a quarter million jobs in September. To be precise, there were 248,000 new jobs, and the unemployment rate is now at 5.9%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor...

After increasing every month prior this year, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers decreased 0.2% in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . In fact, this is the first decrease since April 2013. Declining energy prices, most...

We track the unemployment rate fairly closely. But we also make sure with each jobs report to look at the labor force participation rate, because that helps us better understand how many people are without work. In this video from the Brookings Institution...

The U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in August. That was enough to push the unemployment rate back down to 6.1%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor force participation was at 62.8% (it was 62.9% in July). Here's a look at the unemployment...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers rose 0.1% in July (seasonally adjusted), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . While this was the smallest monthly increase since February, the CPI-U has been growing all year. Food prices were...

The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July. That was almost 80,000 fewer than June, but still a welcome increase. Yet it wasn't enough to push the unemployment rate down. Instead, it ticked up a little, and is now at 6.2%, according to the Department...

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers rose 0.3% in June (seasonally adjusted), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . The CPI-U has grown every month over the last year except for October 2013. The all items index has grown 2.1% over...

What people have been politely calling "the unemployment situation" in the U.S. just got a bit better--at least as far as the central government data is concerned. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1% in June, as the economy added 288,000 jobs...

There was very little change to the US jobs picture in May, according to the Department of Labor . The unemployment rate is now at 8.2 percent after the economy added only 69,000 jobs during the month. The loss of jobs in the construction sector offset...

Productivity continued to increase during the fourth quarter of 2011, but the rate of growth slowed, according to data released by the Labor Department today. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics report: Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased...

The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April, almost double the number added in March. And the unemployment rate edged down from 7.6% to 7.5%, according to the Department of Labor . The labor force participation rate remained at 63.3 percent. Here's...

The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.7%, according to the Department of Labor . Employment expanded across most sectors, with Professional and business services adding 73,000 jobs. Employment in Construction...

Productivity dropped 2.0 percent (annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Output rose just 0.1 percent while hours worked rose 2.2percent. From the report: Unit labor costs...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report for December , released on Friday, the US unemployment rate has dropped to 9.4%. Good news, right? Not so much, says James Hamilton , writing at Econbrowser : Unfortunately, the household...

On Friday we looked at some of the internal data form the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers. Barry Ritholtz looked deeper and found some positive signs in the Temp Help employment numbers. Not overwhelmingly positive signs, but positive nonetheless...

Ahead of last week's jobs report, John Robertson --of the Atlanta Fed 's research department--looked at the trend in labor force participation, and shared some interesting data. After growing over the last two decades of the Twentieth Century...

When we look at the Labor Department's monthly job reports, we make sure to take a close look at changes in the number of marginally attached workers and discouraged workers. The Atlanta Fed 's Dave Altig , John Robertson , and Ellyn Terry make...

If you can't wait three weeks for another jobs report, the Economic Populist has broken out some of the recent jobs data to give a more complete picture of the unemployment situation in the U.S. The first staggering statistic Economic Populist shares...

We wait for the first Friday of every month for the new jobs report, but recently the report has brought little news. Once again, figures for July show an "essentially unchanged" unemployment picture, according to the Department of Labor . The...

Jim Devine warns us to treat the news that the economy added more than 200,000 jobs last month "carefully." First of all, Devine points to the year-to-year growth, 194,000 jobs added, as a reminder that job creation overall has been quite slow...

The Brookings Panel on Economic Activity is under way in Washington today. You can take a look at the agenda here . Justin Wolfers and his colleagues have managed to put together a tempting mix of topics. Wolfers introduces two of today's discussions...

The national unemployment rate is now up to 9.5%. The Labor Department reported job loss statistics for June this morning. Monthly job losses totaled 467,000. That's a siginficant improvement from earlier this year, when monthly job losses neared...

The US economy added 80,000 jobs in October, according to the latest numbers released by the Department of Labor . The unemployment rate dipped down slightly, to 9.0 percent. The professional and business services and leisure and hospitality sectors led...