…for a number) who thinks that the stimulus plan will cause increased employment *and* who thinks that the Nelson-Collins changes won’t reduce employment by hundreds of thousands of jobs ?…

The Wall Street Journal and others are looking at the headline numbers and reporting that we are seeing another report of moderate employment declines like the last few. But hours…

The employment report data continues to imply that the economy is slowly sliding into a stagnation scenario. I let others argue, but I do not see how one can avoid…

…new jobs. The unemployment rate is down to 5 percent – lower than the average for the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Last quarter, the economy grew at 4.1 percent and…

…from four stories on housing and employment. And that brings me to California’s Inland Empire. Of all the areas experiencing a housing boom, the areas most at risk have had…

…to claim that manufacturing employment is on the rise noting that unemployment is down to 5.2%. As I read the BLS data, manufacturing employment had fallen to 14.308 million by…

…backdoor tax increase on young workers. The Bush fiscal agenda does appear to be tax cuts for rich older people paid for by deferred employment tax increases on young workers….

…cause the rise in the officially reported unemployment rate was the 97,000 reduction in the household survey measure of employment. Now there are two ways to read the difference in…

…each month for this year as opposed to their forecast for last year that employment would grow by 300 thousand. CNN is right that the independent economists were not disputing…

Employment growth – household survey v. payroll survey – for the past 6 months (thousands): Household Payroll Feb (265) 83 Mar (3) 353 Apr 278 324 May 196 259 Jun…