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Opinion: Give Me Work -- The Terrible Price of Outsourcing

(July 13) -- If I were to pick the single-biggest issue that dampens the American spirit, damages our economy and ruins our future, it would be unemployment. Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June; the unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. What drives...

We Need to Continue Working to Create Jobs

(July 2) -- This past June, the economy gained 83,000 jobs in the private sector. Overall, employment declined by 125,000 and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent. The job losses are largely a result of 225,000 temporary census workers ending their service. However, over the first half of the year, we've seen the...

Opinion: Private Job Growth? Don't Get Your Hopes Up

(July 2) -- Friday's jobs report, which showed that the economy gained just 83,000 private-sector jobs in June, is further evidence of the anemic pace of this recovery. After the last severe recession in the early 1980s, the economy grew 5 percent, 9 percent, 8 percent and 8 percent in the first four quarters of recovery,...

New Report: 125,000 Jobs Were Cut in June

WASHINGTON (July 2) -- A wave of census layoffs cut the nation's payrolls in June for the first time in six months, while private employers added a modest number of jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year. Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the most since October, the Labor...

Jobs Outlook: Cloudy With a Chance of Hiring

(March 30) -- It's the biggest economic and political question of the year: Will businesses start hiring again and get all those Americans who lost their jobs in the financial crisis back to work? The short answer is that employment conditions seem to be improving but are still pretty bad. The latest sign of recovery...