By one important measure – jobs – the St. Louis economy has been shrinking since May 2007, well before the national recession began.
That sunny spring month is when employment last peaked here, according to new seasonally-adjusted jobs numbers supplied by…
It’s hard enough trying to find a job these days without having to pay for it.
And that’s got the University of Missouri-St. Louis cutting the fee it charges many alumni to use its job search website. UMSL said Thursday that…
As we reported in Wednesday’s paper, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week that the unemployment rate in St. Louis hit 7.3 percent in November. But that figure doesn’t include seasonal variations that allow for good month-to-month comparison.
This morning,…
The region’s jobless rate ratcheted up once again in November, hitting 7.3 percent, according to data out this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nearly 104,000 St. Louis-area residents were looking for work and couldn’t find it in the month,…
In Wednesday’s paper, we had a story about new unemployment figures showing the jobless rate in the St. Louis area at 6.9 percent.
That’s pretty high.
But today, we got new data that irons out the seasonal variations in that unemployment number. And…
