Although my colleague David Nicklaus posted an item on Mound City Money after we heard Saint Louis University economist Jack Strauss expound on the relationship between small business and hiring at a forum last week, an op-ed piece in Tuesday’s New York Times — Help Small Businesses…

The official count on area unemployment, of course, is delivered monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with a nudge from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The raw numbers crunched by the BLS (based on state and regional jobless data) is…

The week that was on the jobs scene…

Monday: IHS Global Insight’s U.S. Regional Insight Group foresees a 9.90 percent average unemployment rate in the St. Louis region for the fourth quarter. IHS Global’s analysts also predict “metro areas will be dealing with the…

File this one under DUH:

An “exclusive nationwide poll” conducted by More magazine has determined that working women over 40 prefer “age-appropriate” jobs that pay well, offer decent benefits, flexibility, autonomy, a bright future and a defined purpose.

Quite a departure, I’d say,…

Unemployment in the St. Louis region topped 10 percent in September — the first time in more than 26 years joblessness in the area has reached into double figures.

The employment rate, 10.2 percent, was adjusted by the Federal Reserve Bank of…

In what it termed a “restructuring of its supply-chain operations,” Ferguson-based Emerson Electric last week informed 330 employees in its transportation division that they will be out of a job by year’s end.

The announcement went out Friday to truckers and…

They’ve been hesitant (with good reason) to say so to your face. So, let’s turn to a public opinion poll to speak on behalf of your co-workers.

Here’s the message: If you are suffering from exhaustion, a headache, sore throat, the sniffles…

A report released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that salary discrepancies continue to cut across gender, educational and racial lines.

The bureau found the nation’s 100.1 million full-time workers earned a median salary of $738 during the third…

By now, regular readers of this blog should have a pretty good grasp of just how tough it is to find a job if you’re residing in and around St. Louis.

As bad as it is — and with 142,000 people…

For those awash in disposable income — and who among us isn’t these days? — an outfit  is now offering a solution to what it deems a “common problem” afflicting the “50-million+ cubicle workers in U.S businesses today.”

Network interruptions that…