While the headlines tell us the monthly unemployment rate, we can look at other numbers in the report to get the whole story.
Jumping (or Not) and Unemployment
By Mira Korber, guest blogger. Pretend for a moment that you are mounted on a jumping horse approaching an obstacle full speed. The next thing you know, you go hurtling through the air like some limp animal. What happened? Your…
Employment’s Bottomless Pit
By Mira Korber, guest blogger. The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in February. That’s more than the 210,000 jobs economists forecast for the month, though the current unemployment rate is still high: 8.3%. (For a different take on the issue,…
