BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Friday’s report on the gross domestic product has led many analysts to believe that the economy will see a much healthier rebound later this year than was previously expected.

But the rapid rebound may…

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…

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…