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09.21.2009 1:59 pm

Missouri and Illinois economies both get grades of “C”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Corporation for Enterprise Development, which espouses policies that help Americans build savings, start businesses and buy homes, gives middling marks to both Missouri and Illinois.

Both states got solid C’s on CFED’s latest Assets and Opportunity Scorecard. That’s better than…

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04.17.2009 3:07 pm

7,000-job loss is St. Louis’ fifth straight down month

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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03.29.2009 11:10 pm

St. Louis lost 1,600 jobs in February

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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03.11.2009 12:09 pm

St. Louis job losses accelerated in January

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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