Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

The April jobs report is a miss! There were just 115K new jobs created in April. That's well below the 160K that was expected. But unemployment rate fell from 8.2% to 8.1% and last month was revised from a gain of 121K to

Optimism has been in shorter supply since the employment figures fell short of expectations a month ago. April's report is due Friday.

"It's really a continuation what we've been seeing, and that's slow, grinding gains in jobs growth," said Paul Simon, chief investment officer of Tactical Allocation Group in Birmingham, Mich. "The implication of the jobs report is near-term weakness

Oh and won't the jobs report go up in the summer with all the youths getting summer jobs and such and graduates applying for work and such or is that not really true of summer months? Reply. May 4th, 2012 at 10:01 am

Oh and won't the jobs report go up in the summer with all the youths getting summer jobs and such and graduates applying for work and such or is that not really true of summer months? Reply. May 4th, 2012 at 10:01 am

Jobs report crucial to presidential election outcome

Any way you slice or dice it, the April jobs report was terrible—and terribly disappointing. Employers added just 115000 workers to their payrolls last month, way below the 180000 Wall Street economists were expecting.

Oil fell $4.05, or 4 percent, to $98.49, after a weak US jobs report offered the latest evidence that the global economy is weakening, possibly reducing demand for oil. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that world oil supplies are growing.

Consider this: No sitting president facing an unemployment rate more than 8% has won another term since Franklin D. Roosevelt. So the headline from the Labor Department report Friday morning that the nation's unemployment level edged down from 8.2% in

"We should be seeing numbers in the 500000 jobs created per month," Mr. Romney said.

Overall, the Friday jobs report added to concern that the economic recovery may be slowing. The figures on job creation come a week after the Commerce Department reported that during the first three months of 2012, economic growth had slowed to an

July 2011 BLS Employment Better – But Still Not Good

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As usual, the BLS reported seasonally adjusted initial claims in the first paragraph of their weekly report dated August 4, 2011 and in the following section of the report it reported the actual number of claims filed. The report was published at 8:30

The BLS employment situation for July 2011 headlines report non-farm employment growth of 117000 and unemployment down slightly at 9.1%. The BLS's headline number includes government non-farm employment, and excluding the government sector, BLS private

What do we call it, the BLS or the CLC? Is it really a front-wheel drive model, and if the prototype is already testing, why do we have to wait three years for the arrival? We can now show you the bear metal of the BLS/CLC, thanks to a couple of cell

July 2011 BLS Employment Better – But Still Not Good

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The problem with the BLS undercount is that it does not reflect changes going on in the real economy. Therefore, I also do my own calculation of the undercount, that is those whom the BLS should count in the labor force

[BLS table at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t06.htm] AAPD has long recognized that employment plays a critical role in economic sufficiency and independence for people with disabilities. The organization is committed to improving employment

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Yet those thinking Economic Armageddon Redux was suddenly upon us, literally crashing the BLS server to get the news, were sorely mistaken. Earlier we reviewed the July 2011 BLS employment ratios. While not the Armageddon Wall Street was expecting,

The Morning Jobs Report–Not as Terrible as it Might Seem

That number is expected to grow by about 20% annually through 2018, a rate that is "much faster than average," according to BLS. SimplyHired, an online job search engine, estimates that health IT positions have increased by 67% since November 2009.

Technically the BLS (the Bureau of Labor Statistics) may not be lying but to truthfully inform the public, there's lots of room for procedural improvement. Human Events: To be specific, the economy currently needs to add

According to a 2009 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the healthcare industry will generate over 3 million new jobs between 2008 and 2018, more than any other industry. In addition, 10 of the 20 fastest growing occupations will be related

How much should this change market expectations for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers that come out on Friday? I briefly compared changes in payrolls (job additions or losses) from the ADP and BLS reports on July 10.

Here's the full press release that the Bureau of Labor Statistics put out with July's employment report.

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