The unemployment rate for metro St. Louis jumped to 6.4 percent in March from 5.0 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. This fits with the dismal story told by the BLS’ payroll survey, which shows St.…

We’ve complained mildly about the quality of local employment statistics, but it looks like they’re going to get worse before they get better. Mark Liebman, senior economist at Fox Business, notes that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will stop reporting…

 If there is a recession going on, St. Louis is feeling it.

We’ve noted recently how St. Louis’ job growth numbers were getting weaker. Now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’  figures for March show that we aren’t growing at all. The…

Metro St. Louis’ unemployment jumped to 6.2 percent in February from 5.6 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning. This is consistent with the January rate, which was revised slightly upward to 6.4 percent, but…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that St. Louis added 5,700 jobs between February 2007 and February 2008. That’s good news, considering that many areas are starting to show job losses,  but it’s a meager year-over-year growth rate of just 0.4…

The St. Louis unemployment rate jumped to 6.3 percent in January from 5.4 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning. The area appears to be suffering both from shrinking employment and from discouraged-worker syndrome. The number of…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with its revised state and local job numbers for 2007 and, as predicted, much of St. Louis’ employment boom has evaporated. The new tally: Metro St. Louis added 2,000 jobs in 2007, not…

Houses in St. Louis appreciated in value by 2.56 percent last year, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight reported today. That’s well above the 0.8 percent increase for the nation as a whole, based on an OFHEO index that includes…

St. Louis leaders were surprised Wednesday by the news that Macy’s was folding the tent on its Midwest division, and eliminating 850 jobs downtown. The company’s realignment plans were a shock to Minneapolis, too, the Star-Tribune reports. The announcement of 950…

St. Louis’ unemployment rate jumped to 5.4 percent in December from 4.5 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The metro-area rate, which isn’t seasonally adjusted, was 5.1 percent in November.

As we’ve mentioned before, the…