The former chief executive of General Electric went to Twitter to suggest that the Obama administration had manipulated the jobs numbers.
Category: jobs
What to Look For in Friday’s Jobs Report
The September numbers due on Friday are likely to absorb heightened attention as the election draws near.
Jobs Outlook Remains Tepid
Moody’s Analytics continues to forecast that job growth in August will be faster than it was in the spring, but still in a range that points to a close election.
Our Dis-Integrated Economy
Outsourcing continues to grow and hampers job creation in the United States, an economist writes.
Romney’s Job Growth Promises
Mitt Romney has promised to create 12 million jobs in the next presidential term. Is that aim bold, overly optimistic — or pretty much what some economists already expect?
What the Jobs Numbers Mean for Fed Policy
While the July jobs numbers were better than forecast, they do not seem to have been sufficiently spectacular to change analysts’ expectations for Fed action.
A Give-and-Take on Jobs
The latest figures on jobs and unemployment have led to adjustments in The Times’s weekly election-year jobs tracker.
City Hall: Where the Jobs Aren’t
The largest downturn in state and local government jobs since the Korean War continues.
Want a Job? Move to Oman
If you believe the locals, Oman and Saudi Arabia are the best places on earth to find a job: 69 percent of the adults in each country believe their local job market is good.
Slight Decline in the Jobs Outlook
The economic data was just weak enough this week to cause a slight decline in The Times’s weekly election-year job tracker.