After reading STL JobWatch’s update on the unemployment situation in St. Louis, I headed for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to refresh my knowledge on where the jobs are being lost. There are no surprises in the big industry categories, which I’ll…

As the Job Watch blog mentioned earlier this week, metro St. Louis lost 7,000 jobs in March. That was the fifth straight monthly decline in the seasonally adjusted employment total, and with details now available on BLS.gov, we can see which industries…

The St. Louis metro area lost 1,600 jobs in February, according to new seasonally adjusted figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. St. Louis has posted losses for five months in a row, and employment has fallen by 31,500, or 2.3…

The St. Louis metro area lost 26,800 jobs between January 2008 and January 2009, according to new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is the fifth straight month of year-over-year job losses, and the biggest negative number we’ve…

The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank has more downbeat news this week about the region’s economy. Its Burgundy Book report, focusing on 71 counties in Missouri and 45 in Illinois,  tells of slow retail sales, a weak housing market and a…