Friday (6/6) we get the May employment readings. Therefore, it’s time to get prepared and, in particular, to protect ourselves from the negative twists that seem to accompany these reports, regardless ...

One of Donald Trump's major themes in his bid for the presidency was the ineptitude of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He called NAFTA the "worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but ...

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 ...

In February this year, the U.S. economy added 240,000 jobs. At that pace, we would close the American jobs gap in June 2018. Yes, 2018. In six years and four months. In March, the economy added only ...

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.

This graph is a favourite of the Department for Work and Pensions, and routinely takes the top spot on the department's own website when employment figures come out: It's perfectly accurate, but ...

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 ...