Are weak employment figures here to stay?
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There was a time when adding slightly fewer than 150,000 jobs a month in the United States, three years into an economic recovery, would have been considered a disaster.
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Government response has been praised, but the poorest are still looking for work or new homes.
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Companies across 20 sectors are unable to find enough skilled workers, according to a new survey.
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Employers&#39; payrolls grew by just 96,000 in September in a weaker-than-expected government report Friday that provided a final snapshot before Election Day of a lackluster jobs market.
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A weak report on retail sales, a key element of US economic activity, fueled nagging doubts about whether a so-called &quot;soft patch&quot; for the US economy is lingering.
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The government's report indicated that employers are still cautious about hiring despite more than a year of healthy economic growth.
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The new year may be a slow one for job seekers, as few area employers expect to be hiring in the first quarter of 2005, the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey showed.
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Retiring baby boomers and the weak U.S. dollar are creating job opportunities in some surprising sectors.
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The job market held up amid downbeat news about other parts of the economy.
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Payroll growth was the weakest in two years in February but a lower unemployment rate and a revision higher for January job growth hinted at surprising resilience in the nation's labor market.
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US businesses added 96,000 jobs to payrolls in September, the government reported on Friday, a weaker-than-expected total that was expected to sharpen a presidential debate later in the day over the economy&#39;s direction.
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Could companies keep jobs at home in the U.S. and still manage to reduce costs?
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WASHINGTON - Employers' payrolls grew by just 96,000 in September in a weaker-than-expected government report Friday that provided a final snapshot before Election Day of a lackluster jobs market.    The Labor Department report means President Bush will face the electorate with 821,000 fewer jobs in the country than when he took office, though 1.78 million jobs have been added in the past year...
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TORONTO (CP) - Stock market futures in New York pointed to a weak start Friday after the September US employment report showed 96,000 jobs created while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 per cent.
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AMERICA&#39;S payrolls picked up last month, with the economy adding 144,000 jobs, slightly less than economists were forecasting and highlighting the slow and uneven recovery in the labour market that jobseekers have braved.
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Consumers were feeling confident in January: The job market was chugging along and oil prices were down. Their optimism may dwindle, however, on concerns that job and wage growth may slow.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000  jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an  unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, but a drop in  job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in  more than three years.