The job market is getting stronger, but it's still far from healthy, according to this morning's big employment report. * The U.S. added 227,000 jobs in February. * Job growth was even higher than ...

The first decade of this century was pretty awful for manufacturing workers. In December of 1999 we had 17.3 million manufacturing jobs. This number had fallen to 11.5 million by December of 2009.

The economy gained 217,000 jobs in May, bringing the total number of workers back to its pre-recession peak and finally putting one of the glummest graphs of job creation out of its misery. The graph ...

It's been five and a half years since the recession started, and four years since the recovery began. It's been a brutal time for the U.S. job market (obviously), and the picture is still pretty bleak ...

The stock market – closed Friday for a holiday – had a chance today (Monday) to react to the March employment report – and fell in morning... At Money Morning, we dive deep into the unconventional ...

In the Sun’s cheerleading ‘news coverage’ of the start of the election campaign, it’s zeal for bashing the Labour party appears to have blinded it to the evidence on its own pages. This graph, ...

Here's what that graph (via Brookings) says. In the last ten years, job growth in America's non-health-care economy has been dreadful. Just 2.1 percent total -- or barely 0.2 percent per year. (Yes, ...