News
MarketWatch | Private-sector jobs up 114,000 in July, ADP says
Payrolls at U.S. companies increased by a tepid 114,000 in July, suggesting modest job growth continued in the fragile economy, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday.
Econ Comments
WSJ | The Cost of Lisa Jackson
Why the EPA doesn't consider job losses when it creates new rules.
Blogs
WSJ: Real Time Economics | Friday’s Jobs Report: The Good News and the Bad
Here’s the good news about the July jobs report due out Friday: The payroll numbers are likely to be better than June’s. Here’s the bad news: They will reflect continued torpor in the labor market.
Reports
RCM: Wells Fargo Economics Group | Employment: Beyond the Sound Bites—Reading the Signals II
Sometimes life is unfair and so too goes the labor market. Labor market weakness in the latest recession has been compounded by long-term changes in the supply and demand for labor. Education is the dividing line.
