Employment

Just before Labor Day Weekend started, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their latest figures for America's employment situation. Our economy added 156,000 net new jobs in the period, but the prior two months were downwardly revised by a combined 41,000. Despite the increased number of filled positions, the unemployment rate climbed one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.4 percent.

America’s current economic expansion, which started in June 2009, has been perplexing.  Our nation’s expansion has been described by some as a “New Normal” after old economic relationships have proven less reliable than before.  For instance, our economy’s pace of growth since the end of the Great Recession has been sluggish even though the Feder

America’s jobs market started off strong in the second half of this year.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, our nation added 209,000 net new jobs in July 2017.  These newly filled positions helped push the country’s unemployment rate down to just 4.3 percent, an improvement of one-tenth percent versus June.  Headlines are often deceiving, but even the