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…
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Loading ...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…
(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5) Loading ...Unemployment in the St. Louis region increased to 9.4 percent in August, a one-tenth of a point increase over the numbers the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis adjusted to account for seasonal jobs in July.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The number of jobless in the St. Louis metropolitan area, which includes Metro East, topped eight percent again in January, a slight increase over the December figures. Seasonally-adjusted, the area’s January unemployment rate stood at 8.265 percent.
December’s seasonally-adjusted rate was 8.02…
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