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.
Outsourcing continues to grow and hampers job creation in the United States, an economist writes.
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?
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.
The latest figures on jobs and unemployment have led to adjustments in The Times’s weekly election-year jobs tracker.
The largest downturn in state and local government jobs since the Korean War continues.