May Jobs Day

Labor Secretary Tom Perez on April's jobs numbers

The Labor Secretary says timing may have been why the labor force shrank last month

This map shows America’s real unemployment problem

There are parts of America still in a depression

The mysterious dip in labor force participation

The labor force participation rate fell last month, but it's not because people left; it's because people stopped entering.

The long-and short-term unemployed are similar

Teen unemployment falls to post-recession low

The teen jobless rate is now at 19.1 percent, its lowest rate since late 2008.

Improved seasonal adjustment says jobs grew faster

The less-educated left the labor force last month

Dropouts and people without college experience led the charge in leaving the workforce in April.

Sharia socialism strikes again

A good jobs report, but still a bad labor market

10 million remain jobless.

No sign of wage increases

Health care has added 63,700 jobs this year

That's a lot of health-care jobs.

We still aren't back to our pre-crash jobs peak

Labor force participation is always weird

Unemployment rate falls to 6.3 percent

The jobless rate fell by its sharpest level since December 2010.

We added 12,000 teachers this month

Revisions boost Feb & March jobs gains over 200k

Good news in the revisions

288,000 jobs in April

Here's the number

Census IG says nobody juked the stats

Jack Welch's argument prompted an investigation by the Census Bureau's Inspector General. They say there's nothing to it.

Jobs Day — here's what you should know

Economists are expecting 210,000 jobs and if the data doesn't live up to it, it's going to look like Janet Yellen made a huge mistake earlier this month.