How has the Great Recession compared to past U.S. recessions? There might be no better graph -- er, scarier graph -- to answer that question than this one from Calculated Risk. It matches job losses ...

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 ...

The jobs numbers are horrible -- worse than anyone had thought they’d turn out to be. 18,000 total jobs created, with a decrease of 39,000 government jobs. Let’s get some graphs. [Click all to enlarge ...

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 ...

The good news from January's jobs report was that official unemployment unexpectedly fell from 10% to 9.7%. The bad news was ... just about everything else. Catherine Rampell from the New York Times' ...

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 ...