As John Williams has made clear, the monthly payroll jobs number consists mainly of an add-on factor of 200,000 jobs.  These jobs are a product…

A new study by a University of California-Berkeley economist says that at current sluggish levels of job growth, entire regions of the United States, which…

One of the great mysteries surrounding the US economy is the seemingly inexplicable discrepancy between the plunging unemployment rate on one hand, which at 5.1%…

Do you remember when real reporters existed? Those were the days before the Clinton regime concentrated the media into a few hands and turned the…

Last Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report of 215,000 new jobs in July with its attendant announcement of an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent drew mostly yawns…

This was supposed to be a better year for teenagers to land summer jobs, and July has always been the peak month for such positions.…

Jeb Bush, one of the leading Republican candidates for the presidency, is in the news again—and not in a good way. During a meeting with…

The economic recession that began with the collapse of the housing market in 2007 officially came to an end in June 2009—more than six years…

Did you know that 89 percent of all minimum wage workers in the United States are not teens?  At this point, the average age of…

With all of that job creation being claimed by the Obama administration and disseminated by mainstream media outlets as signs of a sustained recovery you’d…

The March unemployment rate remained the same, yet once again the BLS survey showed another huge increase in those not considered part of the labor…

If you've read any economic news lately, you've probably been treated to a host of stories touting a "strong" U.S. recovery, really low unemployment, and…